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Live facial-recognition cameras catch 22 criminals in one day
- anigbrowl 3y agoReminder that the Times is owned by Rupert Murdoch who also publishes the Sun, and has reflexively pumped out copaganda for years.
- defrost 3y agoReminder that Rupert has relinquished the reins of power amd it's young Locky at the helm now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_Murdoch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_Murdoch Of the One.Tel crash and burn fame: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One.Tel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One.Tel
- eesmith 3y agoHow many non-criminals were caught? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/05/live-facial-recognition-criticised-metropolitan-police https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/05/live-faci... says: > The research by NPL found that for watchlists of 1,000 or 10,000 people, “true positive identification rate” of live facial recognition was 89%. Previously, for a watchlist of 2,000 to 4,000 people, it was 72%. > The Met said that at the setting it was currently using, the chance of a false match was 1 in 6,000 people. > But Madeleine Stone, legal and policy officer at Big Brother Watch, said: “One in 6,000 people being wrongly flagged by facial recognition is nothing to boast about, particularly at deployments in large cities where tens of thousands of people are scanned per day. > “If rolled out across the UK, this could mean tens of thousands of us will be wrongly flagged as criminals and forced to prove our innocence.”