The City of Detroit has agreed to pay a man $300,000 in a settlement after the city police's facial recognition software wrongly identified him and accused him of shoplifting. The city will also revise its policies on how law enforcement uses facial recognition technology to solve crimes.
The lawsuit settlement involving citizen Robert Williams came from a 2018 incident where his driver's license photo was mistakenly identified as a match to a suspect in security footage from a Shinola watch store.
