This case is disgusting just on the violations of due process afforded to every American. This woman had never been to the backward state of North Dakota, but hick law enforcement detectives there decided she was a bank fraud suspect because AI facial recognition software from a private for profit company said her driver’s license photo matched the grainy video from ATM/Bank CCTV. They used AI facial recognition software as the key evidence to get an arrest warrant. No witnesses, fingerprints, DNA, or real evidence.
What’s worse is this poor woman in Tennessee had no money for a lawyer to fight extradition to North Dakota and demand what’s called an identification hearing. After 4 months in a Tennessee jail she was transported to North Dakota where a court appointed lawyer got the case dismissed due to lack of evidence. When the woman was released from a North Dakota jail, authorities didn’t pay for her transportation back to Tennessee, but instead dumped her outside into the streets of Fargo, ND to fend for herself. Who is the POS facial recognition company that North Dakota law enforcement used to destroy this woman’s life?
alternatingflan on
Technology is only as smart and as ethical as the people who use it, as this example demonstrates so clearly.
Fitherwinkle on
I would sue so fucking much. Like all the suing. Just every bit of sue I could muster and focus it purely on all of them. They’d write books about the sue job I did on them. The Great Suing.
Swift_Scythe on
The police really thought the Television depiction of CSI „ENHANCE“ was real.
AltruisticBob on
It is even worse than mentioned in the first article.
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Hope she sues.
This case is disgusting just on the violations of due process afforded to every American. This woman had never been to the backward state of North Dakota, but hick law enforcement detectives there decided she was a bank fraud suspect because AI facial recognition software from a private for profit company said her driver’s license photo matched the grainy video from ATM/Bank CCTV. They used AI facial recognition software as the key evidence to get an arrest warrant. No witnesses, fingerprints, DNA, or real evidence.
What’s worse is this poor woman in Tennessee had no money for a lawyer to fight extradition to North Dakota and demand what’s called an identification hearing. After 4 months in a Tennessee jail she was transported to North Dakota where a court appointed lawyer got the case dismissed due to lack of evidence. When the woman was released from a North Dakota jail, authorities didn’t pay for her transportation back to Tennessee, but instead dumped her outside into the streets of Fargo, ND to fend for herself. Who is the POS facial recognition company that North Dakota law enforcement used to destroy this woman’s life?
Technology is only as smart and as ethical as the people who use it, as this example demonstrates so clearly.
I would sue so fucking much. Like all the suing. Just every bit of sue I could muster and focus it purely on all of them. They’d write books about the sue job I did on them. The Great Suing.
The police really thought the Television depiction of CSI „ENHANCE“ was real.
It is even worse than mentioned in the first article.
When she was released they put her out on the street with no ID, no winter coat, and no phone. No transportation back to TN or any help in coordinating her return.
https://kfgo.com/2026/03/13/f5-project-ceo-details-work-to-reunite-tennessee-woman-with-family-following-arrest/
Sounds like Fargo police owe her an apology and a house.
This is the AI that is going to replace all jobs in 18 months? Great.