How a New Jersey man was wrongly arrested through facial recognition tech now in use in Ontario
A New Jersey man is sharing with CBC News the ordeal he endured after being wrongly jailed following a misidentification through Idemia facial recognition technology, the same system recently implemented by police in Ontario's Peel and York regions. A lawsuit blames the “misuse of biased technology.”
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![Nijeer Parks (right) was wrongfully arrested after facial-recognition technology led police in New Jersey to believe he was the man seen in this driver's licence photo (left). Two men are seen in side-by-side black and white images](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7228283.1718226158!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/facial-recognition.jpg)
A New Jersey man is sharing with CBC News the ordeal he endured after being wrongly jailed following a misidentification through Idemia facial recognition technology, the same system recently implemented by police in Ontario's Peel and York regions. A lawsuit blames the “misuse of biased technology.”