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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: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday January 29 2020, @05:35PM (1 child)
The title said Facial recognition, not Fecal recognition.
. . . except maybe in countries that have open defecation.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 29 2020, @08:00PM
Ah, but remember, this is the UK we're talking about, the place where they once planned to build up a dog shit DNA database to try catch those people who allow their dogs to defecate in public places....a looney Tory idea back then, but as them buggers (literally and figuratively) are back in power for the next decade (thank you very much, you fucking sassenach idiots....), I'd not rule fecal recognition out....