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Central Londoners to Be Subjected to Facial Recognition Test This Week

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 5, Interesting) by c0lo on Monday December 17 2018, @04:18PM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 17 2018, @04:18PM (#775434) Journal

    Seems like cvdazzle may be busted [newscientist.com].

    However some tortoise-shell like spectacle frames may make you look as Milla Jovovich [newscientist.com].

    Alternatively, some reading IR lights embedded into your glasses may be enough [nii.ac.jp]

    Or keep calm and carry a LED umbrella [sentientcity.net], I hear the rain stopped on a Wednesday this year.

    Or wear a T-shirt printed with various faces of your favourite celleb [reddit.com] - or a pixelated Hyperface [vocativ.com]- bonus points if your choice is Justin Bieber or Trump.

    Or... why not all of them?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @03:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @03:05AM (#775709)

    I see a lot of researchers working on ways to help governments and corporations conduct mass surveillance on the populace, but very few working on ways to thwart that very same surveillance. Researchers who directly help build systems of oppression should be ridiculed and ostracized in society, not congratulated for their 'amazing' achievements.