Randall Reid, 28, was wrongfully jailed in November after facial recognition technology mistook him as a Louisiana purse theft. The photo above is not the man who was arrested.
Facial recognition technology has allowed police departments across the U.S. to compare the faces of criminal suspects against other existing photos, but the tech has also proven controversial.
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