An AI facial recognition match identified Angela Lipps, a 50-year-old Tennessee grandmother, as the woman seen on surveillance footage using a fake military ID to withdraw money from a bank in Fargo, North Dakota — a state her attorney says she has never visited.
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Expert: Jay Greenwood, Criminal Defense Attorney for Angela Lipps Angela Lipps, a 50-year-old grandmother from Tennessee, was arrested on July 14, 2025 by U.S. Marshals at her home and held for nearly six months after Clearview AI facial recognition technology — run by the West Fargo Police Department as a partner agency — falsely matched her to surveillance footage of a woman using a fake military ID to withdraw money from a Fargo, North Dakota bank. Lipps spent about three months in a Tennessee jail fighting extradition, was moved to North Dakota, and was released on Dec. 24, 2025, the same day her charges were dismissed — five days after her first interview with police. Her defense attorney, Jay Greenwood, produced bank records proving she was in Tennessee when the fraud occurred. Then-Fargo Police Chief Dave Zibolski acknowledged investigators made incorrect assumptions based on the AI match, and the department changed its facial recognition policy afterward; the West Fargo system has since been prohibited. Civil-liberties groups cite Lipps among at least a dozen wrongful arrests linked to facial recognition misidentification. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud
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