aceUS woman falsely charged with bank theft sues for $10m over AI facial recognition
A Tennessee woman who was falsely charged with bank theft in North Dakota and jailed for six months has sued for $10m in damages, alleging in a federal lawsuit that Fargo police improperly relied on an artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition system to wrongly accuse her. Angela Lipps, 50, was arrested at gunpoint by US marshals at her home in Tennessee while babysitting her neighbor’s four children in July 2025. The mother of three and grandmother of five was booked into a county jail and remained there…
Police reliance on AI facial recognition led to a Tennessee woman being wrongly identified as a bank fraud suspect, arrested at gunpoint, and jailed for about six months before charges were dropped.
The account is based on unproven allegations in a pending federal lawsuit; the city has not responded on the merits and the claims have not been adjudicated.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-09-18
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