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@marcel@waldvogel.family
2026-03-13 19:15:49

If you have no money to get a lawyer, you may stay in U.S. jail for half a year if some facial recognition software thinks you look similar to a fraudster.
And then even have to organize your 2000km return to your home yourself. A home you no longer have, because you couldn't pay your bills from jail. And not a single excuse.
#FacialRecognition

AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case
Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail in Tennessee and North Dakota after being misidentified by Fargo police through AI facial recognition in a bank fraud investigation.