https://www.afinalwarning.com/511322.html (Natural News) A resident of Farmington Hills, Michigan filed a federal lawsuit after he was arrested based on facial recognition technology. Attorneys representing Robert Williams filed the suit on April 13 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The 75-page lawsuit seeks an undisclosed amount in damages for “the grave harm caused by the misuse of – and reliance upon – facial recognition technology.”
The lawsuit says Williams’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated. In addition, it said his arrest in January 2020 violated the Michigan Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race. Aside from the city of Detroit, Police Chief James Craig and detective Donald Bussa – both from the
by: Ramon Tomey
(Natural News) A resident of Farmington Hills, Michigan filed a federal lawsuit after he was arrested based on facial recognition technology. Attorneys representing Robert Williams filed the suit on April 13 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The 75-page lawsuit seeks an undisclosed amount in damages for “the grave harm caused by the misuse of – and reliance upon – facial recognition technology.”
The lawsuit says Williams’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated. In addition, it said his arrest in January 2020 violated the Michigan Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race. Aside from the city of Detroit, Police Chief James Craig and detective Donald Bussa – both from the
US Cops Arrest Man Over False Facial-Recognition Match. They Are Now Sued Robert Williams, a 43-year-old father in the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills, was arrested last year and accused of taking watches from a Shinola store after police investigators used a facial recognition search of the store s surveillance-camera footage that identified him as the thief.
Updated: April 14, 2021 7:27 am IST
Robert Williams is suing the Detroit Police Department after his wrongful arrest.
A Michigan man has sued Detroit police after he was wrongfully arrested and falsely identified as a shoplifting suspect by the department s facial recognition software, one of the first lawsuits of its kind to call into question the technology s risk of throwing innocent people in jail.
Lawsuit Filed After Facial Recognition Tech Leads to Wrongful Arrest
Detroit officials are being sued by a Michigan man who claims the city s use of facial recognition technology led to his wrongful arrest.
Attorneys representing Robert Julian-Borchak Williams filed a federal lawsuit on April 13 against the city, its police chief James Craig, and Detroit police detective Donald Bussa for the grave harm caused by the misuse of, and reliance upon, facial recognition technology.
Farmington Hills resident Williams was wrongfully arrested on January 9, 2020, after being mistakenly linked to the October 2019 theft of five watches worth around $4,000 from a Shinola luxury goods store in Motor City.