"Law enforcement must drop this dangerous technology—we shouldn't have to worry about being falsely arrested because an algorithm gets it wrong," said the ACLU after a Georgia man was misidentified as a purse thief.Instead of enjoying a late Thanksgiving meal with his mother in Georgia, Randal Reid spent nearly a week in jail in November after he was falsely identified as a luxury purse thief by Louisiana authorities using facial recognition technology.
\u201c- Cops are using facial recognition without disclosing the fact that they're using it\n- Police can scan your face using your driver's license photo, pics on social media, and more\n- You can be arrested, your life can be upended because of a machine's mistake\u201dReid—a 28-year-old Black man misidentified as one of three people who allegedly stole over $10,000 in Chanel and Louis Vuitton purses from a pair of shops via bogus credit card purchases—was pulled over by local...
"Not eating, not sleeping. I'm thinking about these charges. Not doing anything because I don't know what's really going on the whole time," he said."They didn't even try to make the right ID."that Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office detectives"tacitly" admitted the misidentification and rescinded a July warrant.
As Fight for the Future summarized: "Police blindly trusted a facial recognition scan to arrest a man in Georgia. He was wrongly imprisoned for a WEEK. Now the cops are stonewalling the press about their failure."
2020eScribbles ACLU Jailed for 5 days w/o any actual proof of wrongdoing. Hello, NYC?! ~“I have never been to Louisiana a day in my life. Then they told me it was for theft. So not only have I not been to Louisiana, I also don't steal.' Reid wasn't released from the Dekalb County jail until Dec 1.”