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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.

wrd.cmWrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the USThe 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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That used to happen without computers. I had a friend who was taken in by police sure they had their man and he was roughed up, including clubbing with a telephone book buffer on his head! He was held quite a while before other officers brought the right guy in!