Reply to post: I would expect them NOT to

Apple sued in nightmare case involving teen wrongly accused of shoplifting, driver's permit used by impostor, and unreliable facial-rec tech

martyn.hare
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I would expect them NOT to

Make the same mistake repeatedly and then falsely arrest said person, while failing to force Apple to hand over the full evidence (high quality source video footage) in-context from multiple CCTV feeds. Apple just wanted easy insurance money here via their contracted security firm.

What I would expect: Visit him once, check his alibi, if he doesn’t have one, question him at the station (once) without needing to make an official arrest. If there isn’t enough evidence, then there isn’t enough evidence, so be it and if that’s the case and questioning doesn’t help then it’s time to move on to someone else. Full CCTV from an HD/UHD feed (we know they have high res CCTV from news footage) should be more than enough to identify the individual.

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