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Headline ‘Thousands of Dollars for Something I Didn’t Do’ Because of a bad facial recognition match and other hidden technology, Randal Reid spent nearly a week in jail, falsely accused of stealing purses in a state he said he had never even visited. URL https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/technology/facial-recognition-false-arrests.html Media Organization NYT Submitted By: [Name: , GitHub: @armsp]

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{
  "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/technology/facial-recognition-false-arrests.html",
  "headline": "\u2018Thousands of Dollars for Something I Didn\u2019t Do\u2019  Because of a bad facial recognition match and other hidden technology, Randal Reid spent nearly a week in jail, falsely accused of stealing purses in a state he said he had never even visited.",
  "media_org": "NYT",
  "score": 5,
  "summary": "Randal Quran Reid was falsely accused of stealing purses in a state he claimed he had never visited due to a bad facial recognition match and other hidden technology. He was pulled over by a police officer on a busy highway while driving to his mother\u2019s home outside Atlanta. The officer told him he had two theft warrants out of Baton Rouge and Jefferson Parish, a district on the outskirts of New Orleans. As a result, Reid spent nearly a week in jail."
}