NYPD Facial Recognition System Allegedly Produced Erroneous Match That Reportedly Resulted in Wrongful Detention of Trevis Williams
Date: 2025-04-21
Affected: Facial Recognition System Developers, New York Police Department, Nypd
Attack vector: privacy-violation
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1191: NYPD Facial Recognition System Allegedly Produced Erroneous Match That Reportedly Resulted in Wrongful Detention of Trevis Williams. Alleged deployer/developer: Facial Recognition System Developers, New York Police Department, Nypd. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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