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British Police to Trial Facial Recognition System That Detects Your Mood

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 18 2020, @05:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the mood-ring dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:

British police to trial facial recognition system that detects your mood:

A British police force is set to trial a facial recognition system that infers people's moods by analyzing CCTV footage.

Lincolnshire Police will be able to use the system to search the film for certain moods and facial expressions, the London Times reports. It will also allow cops to find people wearing hats and glasses, or carrying bags and umbrellas.

The force has got funding from the Home Office to test the tool in the market town of Gainsborough, but ethical concerns have delayed the pilot's launch.

A police spokesperson told the Times that all the footage will be deleted after 31 days. The force will also carry out a human rights and privacy assessment before the trial gets the green light.

[...] "At the same time as these technologies are being rolled out, large numbers of studies are showing that there is... no substantial evidence that people have this consistent relationship between the emotion that you are feeling and the way that your face looks," AI Now's co-founder Prof Kate Crawford told the BBC late last year.

Could it be it was thrown off because everyone had a stiff upper lip?

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  • (Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Wednesday August 19 2020, @04:17AM (3 children)

    by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <{axehandle} {at} {gmail.com}> on Wednesday August 19 2020, @04:17AM (#1038706)

    ...how does it deal with Resting Bitch Face and whatever the male equivalent is called.

    Probably carefully ignores resting faces. And I understand the politically correct term in Oz is "Resting Bastard Face".

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 19 2020, @03:28PM (2 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday August 19 2020, @03:28PM (#1038837) Homepage Journal

    How though? Unless you actually speak with and get to know the person it's pretty difficult to tell the difference between RBF and someone who's scowling for a reason.

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