FILE - This February 2020 photo provided by the American Civil Liberties Union shows Robert Williams of Farmington Hills, Mich., a suburb of Detroit. On Friday, June 28, 2024, the ACLU announced that the city of Detroit has agreed to pay $300,000 to Williams after he was wrongly accused of shoplifting using facial recognition technology. The conditions are part of a lawsuit settlement with Robert Williams.
The agreement was announced Friday by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Civil Rights Litigation Initiative at University of Michigan law school. They argue that the technology is flawed and racially biased. Williams is Black.
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