This appears to be an update to a story that was discussed here on HN over 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19726528 https://news.ycombinator.c

This appears to be an update to a story that was discussed here on HN over 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19726528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19726528 Now, as then, facial recognition is being used as clickbait, when all that really happened is that this guy stole an ID, got caught shoplifting in an Apple Store with that ID, and thus had the information on the ID incorrectly associated with his face—either in a facial recognition database, or simply by the photo being used with this stolen ID. My understanding from the previous story was that it was not Apple that took the information from the ID, but rather the police, who gave that information to Apple. It looks from this story like there's also a third party involved, SIS, the security contractor, which, of course, further muddies the waters.