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A Michigan man who was wrongly arrested after being misidentified by facial recognition technology joined expert witnesses who warned a congressional subcommittee about the pitfalls of police surveillance software used to find suspects.
Facial recognition technology used by the Detroit Police Department mistakenly matched Farmington Hills resident Robert Williams to a surveillance photo of a suspected shoplifter. Williams, who testified before a House panel Tuesday about his experience, was detained by police for 30 hours and arraigned before his charges were dropped due to insufficient evidence.
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