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[Corp Blog] Facial recognition tech lands innocent woman with bogus carjacking charge (www.malwarebytes.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Summary

Detroit woman wrongly arrested for carjacking and robbery due to facial recognition technology error.
Porsche Woodruff, 8 months pregnant, mistakenly identified as culprit based on outdated 2015 mug shot.
Surveillance footage did not match the identification, victim wrongly identified Woodruff from lineup based on the 2015 outdated photo.
Woodruff arrested, detained for 11 hours, charges later dismissed; she files lawsuit against Detroit.
Facial recognition technology's flaws in identifying women and people with dark skin highlighted.
Several US cities banned facial recognition; debate continues due to lobbying and crime concerns.
Law enforcement prioritized technology's output over visual evidence, raising questions about its integration.
ACLU Michigan involved; outcome of lawsuit uncertain, impact on law enforcement's tech use in question.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is ridiculous. It's fortunate for her that she was pregnant.

One would hope that this would be used as a case study on why this technology is dangerous, especially when in the hands of obviously incompetent or just malicious actors, but I doubt that'll happen.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fact that she was pregnant had no bearing on the case being dropped, it only got dropped because the alleged victim didn't appear at court. I wish her well in the lawsuit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's good info; this article was pretty ambiguous about the actual case itself and made it sound like her pregnancy was the deciding factor.

It's absolutely ridiculous that the pregnancy didn't just invalidate the entire thing, though...