Use of face biometrics sharply criticized in two US criminal cases

Kylese Perryman, 21, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against two police agencies in the U.S. state of Minnesota following his allegedly false arrest, reportedly based on flawed use of facial recognition.

Perryman, a Black man, said his rights were violated by police from the city of Bloomington and deputies from the Hennepin County Sheriff's office after he was wrongly identified as a suspect in a robbery and a carjacking, says CBS News Minnesota.

Hennepin County prosecutors charged …

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