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Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US

ID: 086c0385-a233-5351-a6cd-304ac432e3c2

STIX ID: report--086c0385-a233-5351-a6cd-304ac432e3c2

Feed Name: WIRED Security

Date Published: 2026-06-10

Date Updated: 2026-06-11

Author: Dell Cameron

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The article reports that Robert Dillon, a commercial crabber from Fort Myers, was wrongfully arrested after Pinellas County's FACES face-recognition system produced a high-confidence but inaccurate match to a photo; the complaint describes his arrest, detention, financial and reputational harms, and the ACLU lawsuit challenging the misuse of the system.

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