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posted by takyon on Monday December 17 2018, @03:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-panic dept.

ArsTechnica:

London's Metropolitan Police Service will be testing facial recognition technology in a handful of locations across the central core of the British capital on both Monday and Tuesday for eight hours each day.

This trial marks the seventh such trial in London since 2016. In addition to the December 17-18 tests, authorities have said there will be three more tests that have yet to be scheduled.

Time to break out the Guy Fawkes masks, Londoners.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @03:23PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @03:23PM (#775412)

    Science for the purpose of war is still science.

    Facial recognition for the purpose of tracking everyone is facial recognition.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @03:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @03:30PM (#775417)

    The OP never said otherwise.

    If you told people that the government was going to spend their money building systems for world-wide destruction, there might be a more robust discussion about that.

    If you told them their money was being used to spy on them, and to gather their faces for such analysis, then you might also get more of a robust discussion on the role/power of government.

    That's the point.