Tennessee grandma jailed for 5 months after AI flagged her for bank fraud in state she never visited

Adrian Bogdan

A Tennessee grandmother was jailed for a whopping five months after a facial recognition program erroneously flagged her for bank fraud in a state she’d never visited. Angela Lipps, 50, was first arrested at her rental home in Tennessee in July. Lipps was extradited to Fargo, North Dakota — more than 1,000 miles away from her home — at the end of October, according to a GoFundMe campaign. The West Fargo Police Department had used “facial recognition technology” that flagged Lipps as a potential