Harvey Murphy Jr. is suing Macy's after he was arrested when the company's facial recognition software falsely identified him of robbing a nearby store, The Washington Post reports. Murphy was 2,000 miles away when the technology identified him by scanning the stores surveillance cameras and an internal shoplifter database.
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