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Facial recognition system deployers

Incidents involved as Deployer

Incident 16063 Report
SASSA Facial-Verification Failures Reportedly Contributed to Social Grant Access Disruptions in South Africa

2026-03-30

South African social grant beneficiaries reportedly encountered repeated failures in SASSA's eLife facial-verification portal. Later parliamentary reporting said unsuccessful facial recognition was among the causes of non-verification and confirmed 67,868 grant suspensions in one quarter, but did not specify how many suspensions resulted from facial-verification failures. Affected users were redirected to in-person fingerprint checks.

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Incident 15452 Report
Florida Police Reportedly Wrongfully Arrested Commercial Crabber Robert Dillon After Allegedly False Facial Recognition Match

2024-08-26

Florida police reportedly arrested commercial crabber Robert Dillon in August 2024 after the statewide FACES facial recognition system purportedly identified him as a possible match to a suspect shown in grainy surveillance images from Jacksonville Beach. Dillon reportedly lived more than 300 miles away and said he had never visited the city. He reportedly spent a night in jail and posted bond using his truck title.

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Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Jacksonville Sheriff's Office

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1545
    2 Reports

    Florida Police Reportedly Wrongfully Arrested Commercial Crabber Robert Dillon After Allegedly False Facial Recognition Match

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Jacksonville Beach Police Department

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1545
    2 Reports

    Florida Police Reportedly Wrongfully Arrested Commercial Crabber Robert Dillon After Allegedly False Facial Recognition Match

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Pinellas County Sheriff's Office

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1545
    2 Reports

    Florida Police Reportedly Wrongfully Arrested Commercial Crabber Robert Dillon After Allegedly False Facial Recognition Match

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Law enforcement agencies

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1545
    2 Reports

    Florida Police Reportedly Wrongfully Arrested Commercial Crabber Robert Dillon After Allegedly False Facial Recognition Match

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Facial recognition system developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1606
    3 Reports

    SASSA Facial-Verification Failures Reportedly Contributed to Social Grant Access Disruptions in South Africa

  • Incident 1545
    2 Reports

    Florida Police Reportedly Wrongfully Arrested Commercial Crabber Robert Dillon After Allegedly False Facial Recognition Match

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Robert Dillon

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1545
    2 Reports

    Florida Police Reportedly Wrongfully Arrested Commercial Crabber Robert Dillon After Allegedly False Facial Recognition Match

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People misidentified by facial recognition systems

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1545
    2 Reports

    Florida Police Reportedly Wrongfully Arrested Commercial Crabber Robert Dillon After Allegedly False Facial Recognition Match

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Wrongfully arrested individuals

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1545
    2 Reports

    Florida Police Reportedly Wrongfully Arrested Commercial Crabber Robert Dillon After Allegedly False Facial Recognition Match

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Biometric data subjects

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1606
    3 Reports

    SASSA Facial-Verification Failures Reportedly Contributed to Social Grant Access Disruptions in South Africa

  • Incident 1545
    2 Reports

    Florida Police Reportedly Wrongfully Arrested Commercial Crabber Robert Dillon After Allegedly False Facial Recognition Match

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Entity

Privacy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1606
    3 Reports

    SASSA Facial-Verification Failures Reportedly Contributed to Social Grant Access Disruptions in South Africa

  • Incident 1545
    2 Reports

    Florida Police Reportedly Wrongfully Arrested Commercial Crabber Robert Dillon After Allegedly False Facial Recognition Match

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Entity

Face Analysis Comparison and Examination System Next (FACESNXT)

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1545
    2 Reports

    Florida Police Reportedly Wrongfully Arrested Commercial Crabber Robert Dillon After Allegedly False Facial Recognition Match

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Facial recognition systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1606
    3 Reports

    SASSA Facial-Verification Failures Reportedly Contributed to Social Grant Access Disruptions in South Africa

  • Incident 1545
    2 Reports

    Florida Police Reportedly Wrongfully Arrested Commercial Crabber Robert Dillon After Allegedly False Facial Recognition Match

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Entity

Law enforcement facial recognition systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1545
    2 Reports

    Florida Police Reportedly Wrongfully Arrested Commercial Crabber Robert Dillon After Allegedly False Facial Recognition Match

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South African Social Security Agency (SASSA)

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1606
    3 Reports

    SASSA Facial-Verification Failures Reportedly Contributed to Social Grant Access Disruptions in South Africa

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Biometric identity verification technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1606
    3 Reports

    SASSA Facial-Verification Failures Reportedly Contributed to Social Grant Access Disruptions in South Africa

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General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1606
    3 Reports

    SASSA Facial-Verification Failures Reportedly Contributed to Social Grant Access Disruptions in South Africa

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General public of South Africa

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1606
    3 Reports

    SASSA Facial-Verification Failures Reportedly Contributed to Social Grant Access Disruptions in South Africa

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South African social grant beneficiaries

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1606
    3 Reports

    SASSA Facial-Verification Failures Reportedly Contributed to Social Grant Access Disruptions in South Africa

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Social assistance recipients

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1606
    3 Reports

    SASSA Facial-Verification Failures Reportedly Contributed to Social Grant Access Disruptions in South Africa

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Pensioners

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1606
    3 Reports

    SASSA Facial-Verification Failures Reportedly Contributed to Social Grant Access Disruptions in South Africa

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Elderly individuals

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1606
    3 Reports

    SASSA Facial-Verification Failures Reportedly Contributed to Social Grant Access Disruptions in South Africa

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SASSA eLife Certification portal

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1606
    3 Reports

    SASSA Facial-Verification Failures Reportedly Contributed to Social Grant Access Disruptions in South Africa

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Electronic facial biometric verification system

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1606
    3 Reports

    SASSA Facial-Verification Failures Reportedly Contributed to Social Grant Access Disruptions in South Africa

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Biometric identity verification systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1606
    3 Reports

    SASSA Facial-Verification Failures Reportedly Contributed to Social Grant Access Disruptions in South Africa

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Social grant review and suspension workflow

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1606
    3 Reports

    SASSA Facial-Verification Failures Reportedly Contributed to Social Grant Access Disruptions in South Africa

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Online government-service portals

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1606
    3 Reports

    SASSA Facial-Verification Failures Reportedly Contributed to Social Grant Access Disruptions in South Africa

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Password authentication systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1606
    3 Reports

    SASSA Facial-Verification Failures Reportedly Contributed to Social Grant Access Disruptions in South Africa

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