{"id":74701,"date":"2026-06-10T11:54:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/florida-lawsuit-alleges-wrongful-arrest-after-police-ai-facial-recognition-error\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:54:45","slug":"florida-lawsuit-alleges-wrongful-arrest-after-police-ai-facial-recognition-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/florida-lawsuit-alleges-wrongful-arrest-after-police-ai-facial-recognition-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida lawsuit alleges wrongful arrest after police AI facial recognition error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Dillon was arrested at home in Florida despite living 300 miles away, and charges were later dropped<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/florida\">Florida<\/a> man is suing several law enforcement agencies for his arrest and prosecution for allegedly luring a child after he was wrongly identified using faulty AI facial recognition software.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Jacksonville Beach police department, an algorithm returned a 93% probability that Robert Dillon was the man caught on security cameras at a McDonald\u2019s in the town attempting to persuade the unaccompanied girl, aged younger than 12, to leave with him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/10\/florida-lawsuit-ai-facial-recognition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Dillon was arrested at home in Florida despite living 300 miles away, and charges were later dropped Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email A Florida man is suing several law enforcement agencies for his arrest and prosecution for allegedly luring a child after he was wrongly identified using faulty AI facial &#8230; <a title=\"Florida lawsuit alleges wrongful arrest after police AI facial recognition error\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/florida-lawsuit-alleges-wrongful-arrest-after-police-ai-facial-recognition-error\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Florida lawsuit alleges wrongful arrest after police AI facial recognition error\">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-74701","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\/74701","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=74701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}