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London to Deploy Live Facial Recognition to Find Wanted Faces in a Crowd

posted by martyb on Wednesday January 29 2020, @08:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the dystopian-reality dept.

Freeman writes:

London to deploy live facial recognition to find wanted faces in a crowd:

Officials at the Metropolitan Police Service of London announced last Friday that the organization will soon begin to use "Live Facial Recognition" (LFR) technology deployed around London to identify people of interest as they appear in surveillance video and alert officers to their location. The system, based on NEC's NeoFace Watch system, will be used to check live footage for faces on a police "watch list," a Metropolitan Police spokesperson said.

[...] In Las Vegas, a number of casinos have used facial-recognition systems for decades—not only to spot potential criminals but to also catch "undesirables" such as card counters and others who have been banned from the gaming floors. (I got a first-hand look at some of those early systems back in 2004

[...] private companies' own databases of images have begun to be tapped as well. Amazon's Rekognition system and other facial-recognition services that can process real-time streaming video have been used by police forces in the US as well as for commercial applications

[...] These systems are not foolproof. They depend heavily on the quality of source data and other aspects of the video being scanned. But Ephgrave said that the Metropolitan Police is confident about the system it's deploying—and that it's balancing its deployment with privacy concerns.

[...] Areas under the surveillance of the system will be marked with signs.

Previously:
America Is Turning Against Facial-Recognition Software
ACLU Demonstrates Flaws in Facial Recognition
Amazon and US Schools Normalize Automatic Facial Recognition and Constant Surveillance
Amazon Selling Facial Recognition Systems to Police in Orlando, FL and Washington County, OR

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 29 2020, @01:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 29 2020, @01:28PM (#950612)

    As it is Londonistabbistan we're talking about here, the system would be hard put to find a white face to profile in the first instance, I escaped from that cesspit back in the late 90's and I noticed it was changing then, I've been told by friends from back then who are still there that it's worse now, they'd bail, if they could.

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