Case tracker · Biometric privacy & facial recognition
Williams v. City of Detroit
- AI system / company
- DataWorks Plus facial-recognition technology (Detroit PD)
- Jurisdiction
- United States (Michigan)
- Court / regulator
- U.S. District Court, E.D. Mich.
- Status
- Settled
What happened
Robert Williams was wrongfully arrested in January 2020 after Detroit police facial recognition falsely matched him to shoplifting footage — the first publicly reported wrongful arrest from a false face-recognition match in the U.S. In June 2024 the parties reached a settlement that, alongside monetary terms, imposed some of the nation’s strongest police restrictions on facial-recognition use.
About biometric privacy & facial recognition cases
Collection or use of faceprints and other biometric identifiers without consent (Illinois BIPA), and wrongful arrests from false facial-recognition matches.
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