More than a Dozen Wrongful Arrests Due to Police Reliance on Facial Recognition Technology
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More than a dozen people in the US have been wrongfully arrested due to police reliance on flawed facial recognition technology. A grandmother from Oklahoma was one of them, arrested and jailed for six months for a crime she didn't commit in Maryland.
Police in Maryland used facial recognition technology to identify a suspect in a series of bank frauds. The technology incorrectly flagged Kimberlee Williams, a grandmother from Oklahoma, as the suspect. She was arrested and jailed for six months before the charges were dropped. The ACLU is now sending letters to Maryland police departments on behalf of Williams, highlighting the dangers of relying on flawed facial recognition technology. The case is one of many examples of wrongful arrests due to this technology. The police had obtained images of the suspect from security camera footage and sent them to a national listserv, where someone ran the image through facial recognition software and identified Williams as a match.
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