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732 ACLU Sues After Facial Recognition Falsely Identifies Florida Man As a Child Abductor

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/11/2026 15:00 EDT

ACLU Sues After Facial Recognition Falsely Identifies Florida Man As a Child Abductor

fjo3 shares a report from Reason: Police arrested a man in Florida for attempted child abduction in a town he had never visited, and the only evidence linking him to the crime was an AI facial recognition hit. Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), he is now suing the officers and agencies who put him through it. [...] According to a police report, facial recognition software concluded with 93 percent confidence that the suspect was Robert Dillon. [...]

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