“A Tennessee grandmother spent more than five months in jail after police used an AI facial recognition tool to link her to crimes committed in North Dakota – a state she says she’d never been to before.

Police in Fargo, North Dakota, have acknowledged ‘a few errors’ in the case and pledged changes in their operations but stopped short of issuing a direct apology.”

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/angela-lipps-ai-facial-recognition

Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited

A Tennessee grandmother spent more than five months in jail after police used an AI facial recognition tool to link her to crimes committed in North Dakota – a state she says she’d never been to before.

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@jalefkowit omg. Apology would be the base level expectation of anyone in any polite society anywhere. What the hell is going on, and of course we have no functioning government that might get involved with the use of this tool more generally.