Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US

The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case. The lawsuit claims officers treated a flawed face-recognition match as a near-certain identification, leading to a wrongful arrest. The incident highlights concerns about the reliability of longstanding police facial-recognition tools.

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