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Student Sues Apple For $1 Billion Claiming Face-Recognition Caused False Arrest

by Joey Jordan,

New York College Student Sues Apple For $1 Billion Complaining Its Face Recognition Technique

  • A college student from New York sued Apple for $1 billion claiming the misuse of its face recognition technique.
  • The boy identified as Ousmane Bah, 18, filed the case against the company in Manhattan federal court on Monday, 22nd April.
  • He claimed he was called to appear in the court for allegedly stealing Apple products from its different stores.
  • But Apple denies using the face recognition technology in its stores and claimed the lawsuit seems somehow false.

A New York college student sued Apple for a whopping $1 billion complaining its facial recognition technology. He claimed the company's software in one of its store falsely linked him to a series of Apple store thefts.

Ousmane Bah, 18, claimed that he was ordered to appear in court in Boston saying that he stole Apple products that worth $1,200 in 2018. He filed the case against the company in Manhattan federal court on Monday, 22nd April.

USA Today reported Bah was accused of stealing Apple Pencils that cost $99 each. As per the court doc u ments that Bah filed, he was attending his senior prom in Manhattan on the day of one of the alleged thefts. The court doc u ments further claim bah was falsely blamed for Apple store robberies in Manhattan, New Jersey, and Delaware.

Bah further said someone might have used his lost ID to pretend to be him after they were caught stealing merchandise from Apple. He also said he believes the company accepted the id and then programmed its security systems to recognize its owner's face as Bah's.

The Verge reported that Bah tried to justify the $1 billion claim by claiming the Apple and SIS harmed him by their wrongful actions that included his arrest from his home at four in the morning that ultimately led him to miss his school and a midterm exam.

But after the boy sued the tech giant, Apple told The Verge that it doesn't use the facial recognition tech in its stores and also told the case is weird enough.