A grandmother spent over five months in jail after police used an AI facial recognition tool to link her to crimes in a state she says she had never even visited. Angela Lipps, 50, was arrested in Tennessee after a warrant for her arrest had been issued weeks earlier in Fargo, North Dakota, over 1,000 miles from her home. According to CNN, months before her arrest, several instances of bank fraud had occurred in and around Fargo, prompting a police investigation.
Investigators in Fargo used a “partner agency’s facial recognition technology” alongside other investigative steps to identify a suspect. However, Fargo Police Department Chief Dave Zibolski later revealed that the reliance on some of that information was “part of the issue.” This system has since been prohibited from use by the Fargo police.
