London Police Deploy facial recognition cameras, despite concerns about privacy and the high failure rate tests

The London police goes ahead with a system of face recognition cameras, despite privacy concerns and evidence that the arrangement is full of technology with false positives. The Metropolitan Police, the largest police department in the United Kingdom responsible for most of London, announced on Friday that it would start making new cameras’ Face Detection Live “in London coasting, the capital of one of the largest cities in the West’s controversial accept technology, the “Met” as the London police is known, said in a statement Face Detection technology, which aims people to identify from a list of alarm control and police their Real-time location would be “intelligence-led” only specific locations used. It is expected to already be implemented in the next month. However, activists immediately privacy, noting that independent reviews of concerns technology studies have shown a 81% failure rate. “The police light on the serious public concern already decided ahead with face detection,” Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, a group Civil Liberties, TIME said on Friday. “It suggests to me is inexplicable increase incompetence or ideological commitment to mass surveillance in the capital.” Chosen A judge recently that the use of facial recognition in the UK was legal, but Big Brother Watch has appealed against this decision in life, “This decision is a huge expansion of the surveillance state and a serious threat to civil Liberties in the UK, “Big Brother Watch said the announcement of the metropolitan police. The U. K. has more CCTV cameras per person than any other country in the world except China. Britons are known to be relieved of this message if the monitor is in the form of closed circuit television (CCTV), but visited Carlo, the number of police studies of face recognition London police cameras, says people are often confused and worried when they discover cameras use facial recognition technology. “Turning surveillance cameras identity checks is nightmarish stuff,” Charles wrote last year in the period, in response to public technology processes. “For centuries, the British patent and the United States have protection rooted for citizens against arbitrary interference of the state – we expect the state to recognize us, not us to them. We expect the public authorities to show a warrant, if our privacy to be invaded. But with face detection live, these standards under the banner of closed technological innovation “” in May 2019 San Francisco banned the use of facial recognition technology on privacy fears. London police are sneaking said on Friday that the real-time facial recognition cameras would “help seriously combat crime, including serious violence, gun and knife crime, the sexual exploitation of children and help protect the most vulnerable.” They also said that the stop decision by persons cameras are identified by human officers would stay. But in the statement announces the introduction of recognition of faces live, the police, because the technology does not have any indication of the accuracy of the technology. This, Carlo claiming such a high error rate. “An independent review of six studies reviewed, and found that all alerts generated by the facial recognition system, 81% Fehliden tifikationen were,” said Carlo TIME on Friday. “Today show announcement of the test is never serious.” The Bill did not immediately respond to questions from time through the failure rate technology. The police, the decision as a way to increase the efficiency of their police work, and that the public are aware of the use of facial recognition technology. “The Met start is to make surgically [Live Face Detection] distribution in locations where intelligence suggests the most likely culprit seriously,” said Met Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave in a statement. “Every mission is a Massgeschneiderte, selection ‘list, pictures of wanted individuals, especially those wanted for serious and violent crimes.” facial recognition cameras, Ephgrave said, would be ‘clearly marked’ and accompanied officials distributed brochures on the use of facial recognition technology. He promised that the “stand alone” system technology was not connected to other imaging systems, such as CCTV cameras. But that has not convinced some privacy advocates. “So many things about me do not make sense,” said Carlo TIME on Friday. “They have a team of policemen in plain clothes from a business perspective, using a van. In all seriousness, this is not the goal. This is a step towards using cameras use face detection alive. Just as it is used to it is right now is not sustainable. I fear that there is something even more sinister than the beginning. ”
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