Robert Williams, 43, was arrested after being mistakenly identified as a shoplifter by Detroit police last June
Williams says his Michigan driver license photo - kept in a statewide image repository - was incorrectly flagged as a likely match to a shoplifting suspect
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed for damages against the city of Detroit, its police chief and a city detective
'The grave harm caused by the misuse of, and reliance upon, facial recognition technology,' the lawsuit says
Several studies have shown current face-recognition systems more likely to err when identifying people with darker skin
Cities including San Francisco, Minneapolis, New Orleans and Boston have banned its use