The ACLU filed the federal lawsuit on behalf of Robert Williams, a Black man whom Detroit police arrested and jailed after mistakenly identifying him as a shoplifter based on the results of facial-recognition software run on blurry surveillance footage. (The Logic)

Talking point: Williams, whose experience was first reported by The New York Times, may be the first person in the U.S. to be wrongfully arrested because of facial-recognition technology. The ACLU’s lawsuit cites studies showing such technology does a poor job of identifying Black people, noting the footage in question was poorly suited to producing an accurate result because of bad lighting, grainy quality and a subject who wasn’t looking at the camera. As my colleague Murad reported in September, the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab has called for a moratorium on the growing use of algorithmic policing technologies in Canada until a federal judicial inquiry is completed.