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

By Dell Cameron · Wired · June 2026
Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US
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"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."

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