By The Byte
Published on January 25, 2024
“The attack left him with permanent injuries that he has to live with every day of his life.”
A 61-year-old man says he was savagely beaten and gang raped in jail after facial recognition led to his false arrest for a robbery in Houston, Texas, The Guardian reports.
Harvey Eugene Murphy Jr. is now suing the retailers Macy’s and EssilorLuxottica for $10 million for their alleged use of facial recognition, according to the news outlet, which mistakenly identified him for a 2022 robbery at a Sunglass Hut, a subsidiary of EssilorLuxottica, in which two robbers ran off with thousands of dollars of goods.
Murphy claims that an EssilorLuxottica employee, working with its partner Macy’s, used facial recognition software to misidentify him as one of the culprits and also fingered him for two more robberies — even though the quality of the images fed into the software was poor.