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The Detroit Police Department has to adopt new rules curbing its reliance on facial recognition technology after the city reached a settlement this week with Robert Williams, a Black man who was wrongfully arrested in 2020 due to a false face match. It\u2019s not an all-out ban on the technology, though, and the court\u2019s jurisdiction to enforce the agreement only extends four years. Under the new restrictions, which the <\/a> is calling the strongest such policies for law enforcement in the country, police cannot make arrests based solely on facial recognition results or conduct a lineup based only on facial recognition leads.<\/p>\n Williams was arrested after facial recognition technology flagged<\/a> his expired driver\u2019s license photo as a possible match for the identity of an alleged shoplifter, which police then used to construct a photo lineup. He was arrested at his home, in front of his family, which he says \u201ccompletely upended my life.\u201d Detroit PD is known to have made at least two other wrongful arrests based on the results of facial recognition<\/a> technology (FRT), and in both cases, the victims were Black, the ACLU noted in its announcement of the settlement. Studies have shown that facial recognition is <\/a>.<\/p>\n The new rules stipulate that \u201c[a]n FRT lead, combined with a lineup identification, may never be a sufficient basis for seeking an arrest warrant,\u201d according to a summary of the agreement. There must also be \u201cfurther independent and reliable evidence linking a suspect to a crime.\u201d Police in Detroit will have to undergo training on the technology that addresses the racial bias in its accuracy rates, and all cases going back to 2017 in which facial recognition was used to obtain an arrest warrant will be audited.<\/p>\n