Porcha Woodruff, 32, was eight months pregnant when she was arrested after facial recognition technology wrongly identified her as a suspect in a robbery and carjacking.
She is the sixth person, all of whom are Black, and the first woman known to be wrongfully arrested due to facial recognition technology.
#blackmastodon
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/business/facial-recognition-false-arrest.html
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