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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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 29 2020, @02:56PM (4 children)
If you're turning it on and looking at everyone all the time, what is the privacy balancing their talking about? They just throw up a few signs and call it good? Don't worry, they're not going to put it up everywhere, just where the people are. If you want privacy you are free to go where the people aren't.
(Score: 4, Informative) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday January 29 2020, @04:20PM
The key to "balancing" is that you have to know the weight that is being applied to each side and what is feeling acceptable. In this case "balanced" does not mean "equal weight" but rather knowing that the fulcrum may be intentionally set off-center. For example, London already had the thumb on the scales with their usage of governmental CCTV all over the city.
And, gotta say it....
Pray they do not alter the deal further.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday January 29 2020, @06:15PM (1 child)
Didn't you see the balancing act? I put it right there at the end of the Summary:
I mean, that's not really much to balance the scales, if every place you turn, there's a sign.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 29 2020, @10:45PM
Signs, signs, everywhere are signs, blocking up the scenery and wasting my time.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 30 2020, @01:53AM
There is no balance. Gubbermint has all the power, and makes all the decisions. You, poor peasant, have the options of following orders willingly, or following orders after being bludgeoned into compliance.