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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: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Monday December 17 2018, @08:00PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 17 2018, @08:00PM (#775524) Journal

    Similarly, this has nothing to do with recognition. Rather, the purpose of these systems is [. . .] determining exactly where everyone is at any time;

    That sounds like a wonderful, useful and completely harmless reason.

    Computer: Where is Capt'n Picard?

    It's difficult to imagine a way this could be misused.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @10:06PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @10:06PM (#775589)

    Computer, Where is
    Computer: At [his mistresses].
    ...
    Really? Hard to imagine?

    Access will be biased - whoever is in power has access, and those without don't. Now, if it was all perfectly open and acessible, and everyone had equal access to the data, and computing power to process it, then it might be less of an issue. But still a big step from where we are.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday December 18 2018, @02:40PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 18 2018, @02:40PM (#775833) Journal

      Your sarcasm detector needs servicing.

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