Incident 517: Man Arrested For Sock Theft by False Facial Match Despite Alibi
Description: A man was arrested for theft of socks from a TJ Maxx store under the guise of an eyewitness ID case, after the local police asked the store's security guard to confirm the facial recognition match produced using surveillance footage, despite him having an alibi at the time of the theft.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: developed an AI system deployed by New York Police Department, which harmed unknown.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
517
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2018-02-15
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
nymag.com · 2019
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On Friday, August 16, at around 7 a.m., a pair of suspicious appliances was found on a subway platform at the Fulton Street station in lower Manhattan and, an hour later, a third near a garbage can on West 16th Street. Initially, police tho…
wired.com · 2022
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Quinn says the spread of facial recognition technology has led investigators to believe there will be suitable digital evidence in every case, similar to the way the TV show CSI led people to believe there would always be DNA or physical fo…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.