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8 hours agoWoman's Lawsuit Over Criminalized Abortion Gets Tossed by Trump-Appointed Judge
Qualified immunity protects Texas prosecutors from liability in Lizelle Gonzalez's wrongful jailing over a self-managed abortion.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoFacial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away
UK police facial recognition software arrested an innocent man after misidentifying him as a burglary suspect, revealing significant racial bias in the algorithm's accuracy rates.
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4 months agoLarry Bushart: The Man Who Spent 37 Days in Jail for a Single Trump Meme
But no: What you find instead in the case of Larry Bushart is one of the most plain and egregious examples of police overreach and punishment of free speech you'll hopefully ever encounter. The injustice of it is both frightening and deeply relevant to our current sociopolitical landscape ... as is the curious indifference of national news, who seemed to largely miss the story entirely.
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fromwww.standard.co.uk
4 months agoParents get 20,000 for unlawful' arrest after complaining about school on WhatsApp
Hertfordshire Police originally defended its decision to detain the couple but has now agreed a 20,000 payout, the Times reports. The force admitted a legal criteria for arrest was not made out and formally accepted liability for wrongful arrest and detention. Mr Allen, a Times Radio producer, said: We're very pleased Hertfordshire Constabulary have recognised, albeit belatedly, that our arrests were unlawful.
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fromFuturism
7 months agoPolice Arrest Man With Almost Zero Resemblance to Actual Perpetrator Because AI Told Them To
Extensive NYPD surveillance spending and facial recognition use resulted in a wrongful arrest, exposing reliability and bias risks in law enforcement AI and identification practices.
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