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London police’s face recognition system gets it wrong 81% of the time
The first independent evaluation of the Metropolitan police’s use of face recognition warned it is “highly possible" the system would be ruled unlawful if challenged in court.The news: London’s police force has conducted 10 trials of face recognition since 2016, using Japanese company NEC’s Neoface technology.
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Assuming they're using this tech to avoid bloody murder and not to track down the guy riding his bicycle too fast (for example) or the gypo who stole a few chickens (allegedly at the top of Interpol's wanted list before Al Q grabbed the limelight), I still think it's better to check a persons credentials and be wrong some of the time than to have had an opportunity to catch a terrorist and missed it for fear of having a complaint filed. However, they need to have a think about how they go about apprehending people when there's a chance of error.