๐ŸŽ™๏ธ The CyberGuy Report [Ep. 31] How facial recognition put an innocent grandmother behind bars
๐ŸŽ™๏ธ The CyberGuy Report [Ep. 31] How facial recognition put an innocent grandmother behind bars

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ The CyberGuy Report [Ep. 31] How facial recognition put an innocent grandmother behind bars

A grandmother spent five months in jail because a computer said her face matched. It didn't.

by Kurt Knutsson
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A 50-year-old grandmother in Tennessee was babysitting when US Marshals showed up at her door with guns drawn.ย  The charge: bank fraud in Fargo, North Dakota, more than a thousand miles away, in a state she had never set foot in.ย 

 

The only evidence? A facial recognition match from Clearview AI, run against photos pulled from social media.ย  Angela Lipps spent more than five months in jail before her defense attorney, Jay Greenwood, finally got somebody to listen. This is what happens when AI gets treated like proof instead of a clue.

 

What you will learn in this episode:

  • How a single facial recognition match landed an innocent grandmother in jail for over five months
  • Why the photos you’ve posted on social media may already be in a Clearview AI database
  • What detectives should have done before issuing an arrest warrant
  • How attorney Jay Greenwood proved Angela was a thousand miles away from the crime
  • What to say (and not say) if police ever come to your door for something you didn’t do
  • How to remove your photos from facial recognition databases before this happens to you
  • Why this case is a warning for anyone who has ever shared a picture online
  • The simple piece of evidence that finally got Angela’s case dismissed

 

Read the full story on how Angela Lipps says a facial recognition match helped put her in custody for more than five months.

 

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