tools for commensality 🧿Mar 14

deeply disturbing... and according to the local story linked here, she lost her home, car, and dog while locked up

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud

#AI #surveillance #FacialRecognition

Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud

Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after AI software linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case

The Guardian
Show threadmivox is exhausted Mar 14
@inquiline That poor woman should be able to sue everyone responsible into utter destitution.
Show threadRich Puchalsky ⩜⃝Mar 14

@mivox

"Should?" Possibly. But no intervention within our legal system is ever going to help. That poor woman and many others like her should be protected by having us abolish all of our police.

@inquiline

Show threadmivox is exhausted Mar 14
@richpuchalsky @inquiline Sure, that too… but that won’t undo what she already lost. Or what anyone else whose life they’ve ruined has already suffered.
Show threadRich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

@mivox

Nothing will undo what she has already lost. Certainly, a lawsuit will not. I realize that you wrote "should", so it's a prescriptive statement that to a large extent I agree with, but descriptively it's not going to happen.

@inquiline

Mar 14 at 9:35pmWeb
Show threadmivox is exhausted Mar 15
@richpuchalsky @inquiline A class action lawsuit is significantly more likely than abolition, in the foreseeable future. It would be delightful to achieve abolition by suing all law enforcement agencies into insolvency, as long as we’re dreaming though.