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Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include a statement from the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office.
When Nijeer Parks walked out of a New Jersey prison in 2016, he returned to his family in Paterson and told them he was done …
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In February 2019, Nijeer Parks was accused of shoplifting candy and trying to hit a police officer with a car at a Hampton Inn in Woodbridge, N.J. The police had identified him using facial recognition software, even though he was 30 miles …
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A New Jersey man sued police and prosecutors, claiming he was wrongly arrested and jailed after facial recognition software mistakenly linked him to a hotel theft.
Nijeer Parks, 33, a Black man from Paterson, said his grandmother told him o…
![Government Users of Facial Recognition Software Sued by Plaintiff Alleging Wrongful Imprisonment Over Case of Mistaken Identity](https://res.cloudinary.com/pai/image/upload/f_auto/q_auto/c_fill,h_480/v1/reports/www.natlawreview.com/sites/default/files/styles/social_media/public/article/aux/17444/biometrics%20facial%20face%20recognition%20cybersecurity_2_0.jpg)
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It has become commonplace for government agencies and law enforcement, particularly in large metropolitan areas, to use facial recognition software. These entities are a major client base of Clearview AI (“Clearview”), as we disclosed last …
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