The UK government has published a £20 million procurement for tech companies to provide live facial recognition technology (FRT) to police forces across the UK.
In 1998 i was part of a project team that included the Met Police’s IT R&D team. Those guys had a novel facial recognition system then, that was trialled in Clarendon Road in Watford. The results were not good, but the reason for canning it was that the civil liberties groups were going nuts and threatening mayhem. I cannot believe that 26 years later they haven’t already implemented it and been using it for some time.
Sad to say that, at least, the Met and Merseyside are currently using live facial recognition. They have dedicated vans and stop anyone wearing a mask near them. It has a habit of picking up racialized facial features particularly those common in BAME and GRT groups.
In 1998 i was part of a project team that included the Met Police’s IT R&D team. Those guys had a novel facial recognition system then, that was trialled in Clarendon Road in Watford. The results were not good, but the reason for canning it was that the civil liberties groups were going nuts and threatening mayhem. I cannot believe that 26 years later they haven’t already implemented it and been using it for some time.
Sad to say that, at least, the Met and Merseyside are currently using live facial recognition. They have dedicated vans and stop anyone wearing a mask near them. It has a habit of picking up racialized facial features particularly those common in BAME and GRT groups.