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Jun 24, 2020Confirmed

Miami Police Deployed Facial Recognition to Arrest George Floyd Protestor Allegedly without Cause

Rogue: Caused harmAI loose in the worldData exfiltrationDERIVED

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Miami Police's arrest report for a George Floyd protestor did not disclose use of facial recognition, which allegedly did not meet the legal threshold for probable cause for arrest.

What this means for youIf police used facial recognition to identify you, you may be entitled to know how it was used and to challenge the arrest or charges. Ask whether your local department discloses when it uses facial recognition and what legal standard it applies.

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Data from the AI Incident Database (incidentdatabase.ai), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. IAAI-21.

Source data license: CC BY-SA 4.0 (database). Report contents keep their own rights; reports.text, submissions, images and videos are excluded from the data license.

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