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Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective (www.techspot.com)
submitted 4 days ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] BitsAndBites@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Shit like this sucks because it's the taxpayers that get stuck with the bill. I'm so sick of these huge companies using taxpayers to pay for everything because they dont want to spend their vast fortunes. We see the same thing with huge tax write offs for building things with the promise of more trickle down benefits.

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The taxpayers vote for these idiot tough on crime prosecutors though. Whens the last time you ever heard a voter say competency and avoiding insanely dumb lawsuits was one of their top issues? It's always jobs/crime/immigrants/other people have sex in ways i dont like. Nothing else matters to voters and that's why shit like this keeps happening.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

really need to tie these judgement payout to the police pensions, see how quickly they acrually start policing their own