“I was constantly worried and afraid”: in New York, a student filed a lawsuit against Apple for $ 1 billion

A college student in New York filed a lawsuit against Apple for 1 billion dollars claiming that the company’s face recognition software in its stores falsely linked it to a series of thefts. He writes about it USA Today.

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18-year-old Usman Bach claims he received a subpoena from a court in Boston (Massachusetts). It said that he kidnapped Apple products for $ 1200 in 2018 year, according to documents filed with a federal court in Manhattan.

Among the stolen goods were Apple Pencils, which are sold for $ 99 apiece.

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On the day of one of the thefts in Boston, according to court documents, Bach was at his graduation party in Manhattan, New York. The lawsuit alleges that the young man was also falsely accused of robbing Apple stores in Delaware, New Jersey and Manhattan.

Bach says that someone must have used his lost ID. After the capture, the criminal apparently named himself Bach, who did not even know about the robberies. A college student believes that Apple used a photo from the ID, and then programmed its security systems in the shops to recognize the face of the criminal who, according to their data, was Bach.

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The adolescent’s life was “deeply and negatively affected,” according to the suit.

“He spent a year in college with constant anxiety and fear that he would be arrested again at any moment for a crime he did not commit,” the document states.

The lawsuit states that Bach "was forced to respond to numerous false accusations," which led to "serious stress and difficulties."

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