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

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The ACLU is filing a lawsuit against two Florida police departments after a wrongful arrest based on an inaccurate face recognition match in a child-abduction investigation. The case highlights significant flaws in one of the oldest facial recognition tools used by law enforcement in the United States.

The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying officers treated a flawed face recognition match as a near-certain ID.