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US woman falsely charged with bank theft sues for $10m over AI facial recognition

Angela Lipps, 50, alleges in suit that Fargo police wrongly relied on AI facial recognition to arrest and charge her A Tennessee woman who was falsely charged with bank theft in North Dakota and jailed for six months…

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The GuardianSep 18, 2026, 11:34 PM

US woman falsely charged with bank theft sues for $10m over AI facial recognition

Angela Lipps, 50, alleges in suit that Fargo police wrongly relied on AI facial recognition to arrest and charge her A Tennessee woman who was falsely charged with bank theft in North Dakota and jailed for six months has sued for $10m in damages, alleging in a federal lawsuit that Fargo police improperly relied on an artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition system to wrongly accuse her. Angela Lipps, 50, was arrested at gunpoint by US marshals at her home in Tennessee while babysitting her neighbor’s four children in July 2025. The mother of three and grandmother of five was booked into a county jail and remained there for almost four months without bail while awaiting extradition to North Dakota, where she was held for about two more months. Continue reading...

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