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A woman spent months in Maryland jails because of unchecked facial recognition technology

2026-04-23 · r/technology

A woman rotted in Maryland jails for months because facial recognition tech apparently can't tell people apart — and nobody bothered to double-check. The system confidently pointed its digital finger at the wrong person, and the humans in charge just shrugged and went with it. Another stellar example of AI-powered justice: guilty until the algorithm is proven incompetent.

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