{"id":68840,"date":"2026-03-12T16:56:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/tennessee-grandmother-jailed-after-ai-facial-recognition-error-links-her-to-fraud\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T16:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:56:36","slug":"tennessee-grandmother-jailed-after-ai-facial-recognition-error-links-her-to-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/tennessee-grandmother-jailed-after-ai-facial-recognition-error-links-her-to-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after AI software linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/tennessee\">Tennessee<\/a> grandmother says she is trying to rebuild her life after an incident of mistaken identity by an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">artificial intelligence (AI)<\/a> facial recognition system tied her to a North Dakota bank fraud investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Angela Lipps, 50, spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo police identified her as a suspect in an organized bank fraud case using facial recognition software, according to south-east North Dakota news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inforum.com\/news\/fargo\/ai-error-jails-innocent-grandmother-for-months-in-fargo-case\">InForum<\/a>. Lipps told the outlet she had never been to North Dakota and did not commit the crimes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/12\/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after AI software linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case A Tennessee grandmother says she is trying to rebuild her life after an incident of mistaken identity by an artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition system tied her to a North Dakota bank fraud investigation. Angela &#8230; <a title=\"Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/tennessee-grandmother-jailed-after-ai-facial-recognition-error-links-her-to-fraud\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}