Argentina Police Are Arresting Innocent People Based on Facial Recognition

In July 2019, Guillermo Federico Ibarrola was heading home on the subway when he was stopped by Buenos Aires police. The authorities told Ibarrola that he was being detained for an armed robbery that had happened three years ago in a city about 400 miles away. He said he had never even been to the city where he was accused of committing the crime. On the sixth day in police custody, he was suddenly released. The police officers offered Ibarrola coffee and dinner, and a bus ticket back home. As it turned out, a "Guillermo Ibarrola" had potentially committed a crime, but it wasn't this Guillermo Ibarrola.