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US woman falsely charged with bank theft sues for $10m over AI facial recognition

NBC News - US News and The Guardian US describe the same event in different terms.

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What happened US woman falsely charged with bank theft sues for $10m over AI facial recognition.
The headline split The Guardian US frames it as "US woman falsely charged with bank theft sues for $10m over AI facial recognition". NBC News - US News frames it as "Woman sues North Dakota city after she says AI wrongly landed her in jail".
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The Guardian USNews report · Sep 18, 11:34 PM

US woman falsely charged with bank theft sues for $10m over AI facial recognition

Angela Lipps, 50, alleges in suit that Fargo police wrongly relied on AI facial recognition to arrest and charge her A Tennessee woman who was falsely charged with bank theft in North Dakot...

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NBC News - US NewsNews report · Sep 18, 11:28 PM

Woman sues North Dakota city after she says AI wrongly landed her in jail

A woman is suing a city in North Dakota after she says that AI facial recognition technology wrongly landed her in jail for six months. She alleges that police forcibly took her from her ho...

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