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podcasts. Facial recognition software is leading to wrongful arrests, but it's hard to know how

often. From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech, I'm Megan McCarty Carino.

There are at least five known cases where police use of facial recognition algorithms

have led to mistaken identity arrests in the US. All five were black men.

Nate Friedwessler is representing one of them in a case against the Detroit police.

He's with the ACLU's Speech Privacy and Technology Project.

This technology is your black box algorithmic artificial intelligence technology.

It's far from perfect even in ideal test conditions, but when police are using it,

it's far from ideal. They're feeding in all kinds of photos with different qualities,

photos of, you know, from surveillance cameras or security cameras where it might be

shadowy, someone's face might be partly obscured by a hat or sunglasses. All of those issues

with photo quality lower the reliability of the result from the algorithm. In other words,

there's a higher chance of a false match. Additionally, we now know of five cases around the

country where black men were falsely arrested for crimes they had nothing to do with because police

relied on incorrect matches by this technology. I'm part of the legal team that represents one of

those men. His name is Robert Williams. He lives in the Detroit area in Michigan. He was arrested

on his front yard in front of his two very young daughters and his wife by Detroit police,

held in jail for 30 hours interrogated for a shoplifting prime that he had nothing to do with.

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