An 18-year-old from New York has filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Apple over a wrongful arrest that he says occurred because of Apple's facial recognition system.
On November 29, NYPD officers arrested Ousmane Bah after he was wrongly linked to a series of thefts at Apple Stores in Boston, New Jersey, Delaware and Manhattan.
Apparently, the real culprit used Bach's stolen ID, which included his name, address and other personal information. However, according to the lawsuit, because the ID did not include a photo, Apple programmed its stores' facial recognition system to associate the real thief's face with Bach's details.
As a result, the detective involved in the investigation, after studying the recordings from Apple surveillance cameras after the arrest of Usman Bach, came to the conclusion that the βrealβ Bach did not look like the attacker at all. In addition, at the time of the theft in Boston, Bach was at a prom in Manhattan.
Indeed, there was confusion, due to which an innocent person was injured. However, as the New York Post noted, the lawsuit emphasizes that "Apple's use of facial recognition software in its stores to track individuals suspected of theft is no different from the surveillance described in Orwell's novel that consumers fear." especially considering that most people are not even aware that their faces are being secretly studied.β
Source: 3dnews.ru