This February 2020 photo provided by the American Civil Liberties Union shows Robert Williams of Farmington Hills, Mich., a suburb of Detroit.The conditions are part of a lawsuit settlement with Robert Williams. His driver's license photo was incorrectly flagged as a likely match to a man seen on security video at a Shinola watch store in 2018.
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. “They can get a facial recognition lead and then they can go out and do old-fashioned police work and see if there's actually any reason to believe that the person who was identified ... might have committed a crime,” said Phil Mayor, an ACLU attorney.