Exactly, essentially neither Apple nor the police bothered to check if the name they got from an ID card was actually realistic before acting on this informatio

Exactly, essentially neither Apple nor the police bothered to check if the name they got from an ID card was actually realistic before acting on this information with violence. They searched for the wrong face into facial recognition software ... which did it's job perfectly. This is akin to the police arresting someone because their name matched a name a criminal left behind. Happens all the time, and I'm sure that more than a few wrongful convictions happen this way. This is 99% the fault of the police. Perhaps there's an argument that facial ID lowers the bar slightly for this to happen, but that's about it. When push comes to shove, neither Apple, nor the police did their work properly before resorting to heavy handed tactics ...