Apple: student claims $ 1 billion for wrongful theft

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An 18-year-old student has filed a lawsuit against Apple and claims $ 1 billion for being falsely accused of a series of Apple Store robberies. His name had been associated with another person identified by the facial recognition system installed in the stores of the Cupertino company.

Ousmane Bah is an 18 year old student living in New York, United States. He was arrested in November 2018 after a complaint by Apple accusing him of stealing products from several Apple Store, wrongly. A few months later, he filed a complaint against the Cupertino company and claimed the sum of one billion dollars.

Apple is the subject of a complaint for false accusation of theft

The arrest warrant issued against the student included a photo that did not look like him, as he explains in his complaint filed Monday, April 22, 2019. One of the flights that Apple accuses took place in Boston, a day in June 2018 when he was attending the prom of his establishment in New York, he said.

How could Apple wrongly identify him as the alleged thief? Ousmane Bah claims to have previously lost a provisional driving license without a photo. The piece was probably found by the real thief and used as identification in the Apple Store. The name of the accused would have been associated with the face identified in several Apple stores by the facial recognition system that the company uses to find the suspected thieves.

The student claims to have undergone a series of interrogations after his arrest for false accusations. This situation, he says, has caused him intense stress. The young man claims in his complaint the sum of one billion dollars for the moral damage caused by this arrest for acts he did not commit.