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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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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And the state? They jailed her with insufficient proof.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

they jailed her with pretty much no proof, pretty much a call from north dakota sayin "go arrest this grandma"

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Buried in the article, it came out that the face they used as "proof" was the picture on the FAKE ID that the actual suspect used. They did exactly 0 investigative work. The computer spat out a picture with a name and they just went in guns drawn.

In front of kids.

The only "good" part I guess is that they didn't shoot her or the kids.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

yep, I know. All this, but the lawsuit, broke a couple months ago.

the lawsuit is the only new bit of information in the story