Facial recognition technology is being blamed for disproportionately arresting Black people due to the lack of Black faces in the algorithms' training data sets, and a 61-year-old grandfather is suing Sunglass Hut's parent company after his arrest after the store's facial recognition technology mistakenly identified him as a robber.

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