Security News > 2020 > December > Lawsuit Claims Flawed Facial Recognition Led to Man’s Wrongful Arrest

Black man sues police, saying he was falsely ID'd by facial recognition, joining other Black Americans falling victim to the technology's racial bias.

Racial bias against non-white skin in facial recognition landed Nijeer Parks ten days in jail in 2019 after the technology falsely identified him as a shoplifting suspect, a new lawsuit says.

The charges against him were later dismissed and prosecutors admitted the only evidence against Parks was from the department's Clearview AI facial recognition technology.

The 2018 Gender Shades project, and an independent assessment by the National Institute of Standards and Technology have all come to the same conclusion: facial recognition technology is least accurate on Black Americans and Black women in particular.

Last November the Los Angeles Police Department banned the Clearview AI facial recognition platform after personnel were revealed to have been using the database, citing privacy concerns and under pressure from watchdog groups like the American Civil Liberties Union.

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