{"id":23475,"date":"2026-06-10T16:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/florida-lawsuit-alleges-wrongful-arrest-after-police-ai-facial-recognition-error\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T16:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:37:18","slug":"florida-lawsuit-alleges-wrongful-arrest-after-police-ai-facial-recognition-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/florida-lawsuit-alleges-wrongful-arrest-after-police-ai-facial-recognition-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida lawsuit alleges wrongful arrest after police AI facial recognition error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Dillon was arrested at home in Florida despite living 300 miles away, and charges were later dropped<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/florida\">Florida<\/a> man is suing several law enforcement agencies for his arrest and prosecution for allegedly luring a child after he was wrongly identified using faulty AI facial recognition software.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Jacksonville Beach police department, an algorithm returned a 93% probability that Robert Dillon was the man caught on security cameras at a McDonald\u2019s in the town attempting to persuade the unaccompanied girl, aged younger than 12, to leave with him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/10\/florida-lawsuit-ai-facial-recognition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/898e4b6f40778f62f4cdd579b0089ff5df3fef86\/612_1574_3618_2893\/master\/3618.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8c133d263810da65c9be982c245b5828\" title=\"Florida lawsuit alleges wrongful arrest after police AI facial recognition error\" \/>Robert Dillon was arrested at home in Florida despite living 300 miles away, and charges were later dropped<br \/>\nSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<br \/>\nA Florida man is suing several law enforcement agencies for his arrest and prosecution for allegedly luring a child after he was wrongly identified using faulty AI facial recognition software.<br \/>\nAccording to the Jacksonville Beach police department, an algorithm returned a 93% probability that Robert Dillon was the man caught on security cameras at a McDonald\u2019s in the town attempting to persuade the unaccompanied girl, aged younger than 12, to leave with him. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Dillon was arrested at home in Florida despite living 300 miles away, and charges were later dropped Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email A Florida man is suing several law enforcement agencies for his arrest and prosecution for allegedly luring a child after he was wrongly identified using faulty AI facial &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/florida-lawsuit-alleges-wrongful-arrest-after-police-ai-facial-recognition-error\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Florida lawsuit alleges wrongful arrest after police AI facial recognition error<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23475"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}