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The city of Detroit will pay $300,000 to a man wrongly accused of shoplifting. And as part of a settlement reached with the man, the city will change how its police force uses facial recognition technology to identify suspects, Robert Williams' driver's license picture was incorrectly flagged as a likely match for a man captured on grainy security video at a Shinola watch store theft in 2018. Williams was arrested two years later in front of his wife and two young daughters on their front lawn in the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills.
"We are extremely excited that going forward there will be more safeguards on the use of this technology with our hope being to live in a better world because of it, even though what we would like for them to do is not use it at all," Williams said, according to The Associated Press . Williams, a Black man, was held in jail for more than 24 hours and defended himself in court before the charges were eventually dropped, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, which says the facial recognition technology is flawed and racially biased, noting that there has been a higher rate of false matches for Black people. DETROIT COP ON ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES AFTER TELLING ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTER TO 'GO BACK TO MEXICO' The city of Detroit has agreed to pay Robert Williams $300,000 after he was wrongly accused of shoplifting using facial recognition technology.
(Drew English.
