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.
  • @[email protected]English
    6•2 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•2 days ago

      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.

    • GreatAlbatrossMEnglish
      2•2 days ago

      You just know there is a room full of MBA types about to pitch GPT written code for this tender.
      GPT written pitch, naturally.

    • NickwithaCEnglish
      3•2 days ago

      A reminder that no facial recognition technology has any greater level of accuracy than what you could come up with.

  • MonsterMonsterEnglish
    2•2 days ago

    There was a time, not long ago, that this type of sensitive contract would have been awarded to China. To top it off they’d buy them out when they realised China doesn’t make a good supplier to the UK government.