‘That wasn’t me’: How facial recognition led to a woman being jailed for 6 months
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A woman was jailed for several months after being misidentified by facial recognition technology. The length of her imprisonment is reported to be either 5 or 6 months. The case is one of multiple instances where facial recognition is said to have led to wrongful arrests, with some reports suggesting over a dozen such incidents.
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