Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Facial Recognition Tools Used By Police - Staggeringly Inaccurate

 

According to BBC News (May 15, 2018) facial recognition tools used by police are 'staggeringly inaccurate'.  Big Brother Watch (a UK civil rights group) said it was concerned that facial recognition cameras would affect "individuals' right to a private life and freedom of expression". It also raised concerns that photos of any "false alarms" were sometimes kept by police for weeks. In figures given to Big Brother Watch, South Wales Police said its technology had made 2,685 "matches" between May 2017 and March 2018 - but 2,451 were false alarms." Automated facial recognition technology is currently used by UK police forces without a clear legal basis, oversight or governmental strategy," the group said.


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