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Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective (www.techspot.com)
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A Tennessee grandmother who spent six months in jail after facial recognition tech falsely linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud investigation now wants compensation for what happened. Angela Lipps is suing the City of Fargo and a Fargo Police Department detective for $10 million over the incident, which led to the loss of her home, car, and dog.

In July 2025, a team of US Marshals arrested 50-year-old Lipps in Tennessee at gunpoint while she was babysitting four young children. She was booked into the county jail in Tennessee as a fugitive from justice wanted in North Dakota.

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[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 87 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The companies that run this facial recognition should be the ones to pay first and foremost. The villains never pay themselves, we are paying victims from the taxes of the victims.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The way these things work it's up to the City Of Fargo to, after paying $10 million to this lady, go after the supplier they hired for the facial recognition service because it was not up to claimed standards and resulted in such losses for the City Of Fargo.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

And, ideally, when the City of Fargo has to eat the cost (because the contract with the tech company likely specifies that a facial recognition match is not sufficient grounds for arrest), it and every other municipality using similar tech will change its policing practices.

But probably the city will just quietly take responsibility for the damages after a session of contractually required private mediation, and nobody will learn a lesson.

[–] Batman@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean while they should be punished for their involvement, the CV didn't keep her in prison for six months

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 17 points 2 days ago

Even so, they oversold the effectiveness you can be sure.