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Facial recognition software vendor vows to thwart misuse after wrongful Detroit arrest

Facial recognition software vendor vows to thwart misuse after wrongful Detroit arrest

(Reuters) — Facial recognition vendor Rank One Computing said on Wednesday it would “add legal means” and research other ways to thwart misuse after its software was involved in the first known wrongful arrest based on the technology in the United States. Robert Williams, who is Black, spent over a day in Detroit police custody […]

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Gig workers face arrest and charges while delivering during pandemic and curfews

Gig workers face arrest and charges while delivering during pandemic and curfews

“Are you serious? Look, look, look, look! I’m not even doing anything,” he says, as an officer replies that he’s in violation of New York City’s curfew order. “It tells me on the app that … I can show you guys you can’t arrest me. Are you serious? Are you serious? For real?” This delivery

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Cops Arrest 12-Year-Old For Pointing ‘Finger Guns’ At Classmates

from the finally-the-gov’t-is-getting-serious-on-gun-control dept If we keep insisting on putting cops in schools, things like this are never going to stop happening: A 12-year-old Overland Park girl formed a gun with her fingers, pointed at four of her Westridge Middle School classmates one at a time, and then turned the pretend weapon toward herself. Police

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Tiger Woods struggles to blow into a breathalyser and slumps in a chair at the police station after his drink-driving arrest

SHOCKING footage shows Tiger Woods at his lowest ebb in 2017… slumping into a chair and struggling to blow into a breathalyser after he was arrested on suspicion of drink driving. The golf star was filmed looked rather dazed as he stumbled around the police station after being found asleep at the wheel in Jupiter,

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What’s Next for Starbucks After the Shocking Arrest of Two Black Men? (Hint: Unconscious Bias Training)

Aside from the latest Instagram-ready Crystal Ball or Unicorn Frappuccino, coffee giant Starbucks hasn’t been in the news much lately. That is, until two black men — real estate brokers waiting to meet a business colleague in a Philadelphia Starbucks last week — were unceremoniously arrested and held by police for more than six hours. Why?

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How Starbucks Went From PR Management to PR Disaster Over the Philadelphia Arrest Video

Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek.  Perhaps Starbucks thought it could handle it. After a video showing two black men being arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks was posted on Thursday to Twitter by Melissa DePino, there was a slow burn of online rage. Here were

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