Man ‘falsely arrested’ with facial recognition for cold case murder sues Phoenix PD, MCAO
A man is suing the Phoenix Police Department and the Maricopa County Attorney's Office after allegedly being wrongfully arrested for a cold case murder based on a facial recognition match. The lawsuit claims the identification was faulty and led to a wrongful deprivation of his liberty.
Why this matters: Facial recognition does not just get things wrong occasionally. It gets things wrong in ways that land innocent people in jail. This man was reportedly swept up in a murder investigation he had nothing to do with, because an algorithm pointed at him. That is not a software glitch. That is a person losing their freedom. Police departments keep using these tools without being transparent about error rates, and prosecutors keep acting on the results. Someone has to be accountable when the technology is wrong. Right now, it is usually the person who got arrested.
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