that was the case recently in detroit michigan when police arrested 42 year old black man robert julian williams on a felony warrant for larceny after facial recognition technology fingered him was the perpetrator of shoplifting $3800.00 worth of watches from a shy mellow store the computer said you did it so that's a wrap case closed looking down on let's go grab you know starbucks and maybe pepper pepper spray a few protesters on our way there but not so fast no no no turns out this crime fighting facial recognition technology has a pretty major fatal flaw the new york times reports that while facial recognition systems have been dangerously used by police for more than 2 decades recent studies by mit and the national institute of standards and technology or nist have found that while the technology works relatively well on white men the results are less accurate for other demographics in part because they lack of diversity in the images they used to develop the underlying databases and this flaw in the programming has now made poor father of 2 robert williams famous famous for potentially bei