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500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive

518 points · 305 comments · ilamont

Retr0id · 1790682541 · focus · HN ↗
So now that the "trial" has failed we're going to stop doing face scanning, right? ...right???
1. pasc1878 · 1790683213 · focus · HN ↗
  In the UK it has worked at other places
  "He said 103 arrests has been made so far and there was one false alert which did not result in an arrest.
  Supt Luke Dillon said overall crime figures in the Fairfield ward, where the pilot has been held, fell by 12% per cent.
  "We're seeing reductions in almost all crime types, certainly in shoplifting and robbery," he said. "
  <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2056r07rjlo" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2056r07rjlo
  1. jagged-chisel · 1790684900 · focus · HN ↗
    I’m more interested in whether these arrests were appropriate, the suspects convicted of a crime by a jury of their peers.
    pasc1878 · 1790686942 · focus · HN ↗
    I am not certain that is relevant for this particular use of cameras.
    People are being matched against an existing watchlist so the people arrested are those the Police would arrest anyway if they found them.
    jagged-chisel · 1790691316 · focus · HN ↗
    Is that the case? Or is it the case that because the computer said so, the arrest was made?

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