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Facewatch : the Reality Behind the Marketing Discourse - 18 octobre 2020
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Facewatch is allegedly developping a facial recognition technology that will work when people are wearing masks
Statements by the CEO of Facewatch and marketing documents suggest the company is partnering with police departments in the UK - but the reality is unclear
Beyond the marketing (...)
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Authorities Must Act on Police Face Surveillance Network by the Backdoor - 18 octobre 2020
Authorities Must Act on Police Face Surveillance Network by the Backdoorrivacy International is calling on regulatory and law enforcement bodies to investigate the roll out of a face surveillance network by a UK company called Facewatch.
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Facewatch provide facial recognition analysis and biometric (...)
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IBM quits facial-recognition market over police racial-profiling concerns - 11 juin 2020
CEO writes to US Congress calling for ‘national dialogue’ about use in law enforcement
IBM is pulling out of the facial recognition market and is calling for “a national dialogue” on the technology’s use in law enforcement.
The abrupt about-face comes as technology companies are facing increased scrutiny over their (...)
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Police In England Have Run Hundreds Of Searches On A New Facial Recognition Tool - 29 février 2020
Exclusive : The UK National Crime Agency and a number of police forces across England, as well as several private investment firms, have registered users with facial recognition software company Clearview AI.
The National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police are among a number of leading organisations across the (...)
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Met police chief : facial recognition technology critics are ill-informed | Technology | The Guardian - 25 février 2020
Cressida Dick defends tech after civil liberties groups raise fears over accuracy and privacy
The Metropolitan police commissioner, Cressida Dick, has attacked critics of facial recognition technology for using arguments she has claimed are highly inaccurate and ill-informed.
The Met began operational use of the (...)
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Facial recognition : ’No justification’ for Police Scotland to use technology - BBC News - 12 février 2020
MSPs have warned there is no justification for using live facial recognition following privacy and human rights concerns.
A report said the software would be a "radical departure" from the current practice of policing by consent.
Police Scotland said it hoped to use the software by 2026, but later put plans on (...)
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Stop the Met Police using facial recognition surveillance | 38 Degrees - 11 février 2020
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The Metropolitan Police has announced it will use live facial recognition across London, despite an independent review finding its previous trials "likely unlawful" and over 80% inaccurate. The Met is the largest police force in the democratic world to roll out this dangerously (...)
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Hiding in plain sight : activists don camouflage to beat Met surveillance | World news | The Guardian - 4 février 2020
Privacy campaigners bid to beat police facial recognition plans by wearing ‘dazzle’ makeup
Makeup has long been seen as an act of defiance, from teenagers to New Romantics. Now that defiance has taken on a harder edge, as growing numbers of people use it to try to trick facial recognition systems.
Interest in (...)
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56524_A4 Booklet HRBDT report_V3_web.pdf - London-Met-Police-Trial-of-Facial-Recognition-Tech-Report.pdf - 29 janvier 2020
Independent Report on the London Metropolitan Police Service’s Trial of Live Facial Recognition Technology
Between 2016 and 2019 the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) conducted a total of 10 test deployments, trialling live facial recognition (LFR) technology during policing operations. This research was initiated (...)
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81% of ’suspects’ flagged by Met’s police facial recognition technology innocent, independent report says | Science & Tech News | Sky News - 27 janvier 2020
Four out of five people identified by the Metropolitan Police’s facial recognition technology as possible suspects are innocent, according to an independent report.
Researchers found that the controversial system is 81% inaccurate - meaning that, in the vast majority of cases, it flagged up faces to police when (...)
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London police to use face scan tech, stoking privacy fears - 27 janvier 2020
LONDON (AP) — London police will start using facial recognition cameras to pick out suspects from street crowds in real time, in a major advance for the controversial technology that raises worries about automated surveillance and erosion of privacy rights.
The Metropolitan Police Service said Friday that after a (...)
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Met police to begin using live facial recognition cameras | Technology | The Guardian - 26 janvier 2020
Civil liberties groups condemn move as ‘a breathtaking assault on our rights’
The Metropolitan police will start using live facial recognition, Britain’s biggest force has announced.
The decision to deploy the controversial technology, which has been dogged by privacy concerns and questions over its lawfulness, was (...)
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This is how Facebook’s AI looks for bad stuff - 19 novembre 2019
The context : The vast majority of Facebook’s moderation is now done automatically by the company’s machine-learning systems, reducing the amount of harrowing content its moderators have to review. In its latest community standards enforcement report, published earlier this month, the company claimed that 98% of (...)
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New surveillance tech means you’ll never be anonymous again - 24 septembre 2019
Forget facial recognition. Researchers around the world are creating new ways to monitor you. Lasers detecting your heartbeat and microbiome are already being developed
The fight over the future of facial recognition is heating up. But it is just the beginning, as even more intrusive methods of surveillance are (...)
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London Police Facial Recognition "˜Fails 80% Of The Time And Must Stop Now’ - 25 juillet 2019
London’s Metropolitan Police’s controversial trial of facial recognition technology to spot suspects failed to work 80% of the time and could be ruled illegal, according to researchers.
The researchers from the University of Essex said the problems were so bad that the use of facial recognition by the Met should be (...)
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À Londres, la reconnaissance faciale comme outil de surveillance essuie un échec cuisant - 25 juillet 2019
Des chercheurs de l’université de Wessex ont analysé une série de tests consacrée à une technologie de reconnaissance faciale utilisée par les forces de police londoniennes. Et le moins que l’on puisse dire, c’est que les résultats semblent très peu concluants. De quoi émettre des critiques toujours plus négatives à l’égard (...)
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À Londres, la police teste une technologie de reconnaissance faciale pour retrouver des suspects : - 2 juillet 2018
L’intelligence artificielle fait encore parler d’elle au moment où des questions fusent sur l’éthique autour de son utilisation. À Londres, des millions de personnes ont déjà leurs visages passés au crible par un logiciel, ce, dans la plupart des cas, à leur insu. D’après la police, l’utilisation de la technologie est (...)
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Facial recognition to be deployed by police across London, sparking human rights concerns - 2 juillet 2018
Millions of people face the prospect of being scanned by police facial recognition technology that has sparked human rights concerns.
The controversial software, which officers use to identify suspects, has been found to be "staggeringly inaccurate" , while campaigners have branded its use a violation of privacy. (...)
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UK police use of facial recognition technology a failure, says report - 15 mai 2018
Civil liberties group says systems used by Met and South Wales police are wrong nine times out of 10
Police attempts to use cameras linked to databases to recognise people from their face are failing, with the wrong person picked out nine times out 10, a report claims.
The report from Big Brother Watch, (...)
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UK Police Deem Snowden Leak Investigation a State Secret - 22 mars 2015
British police claim a criminal investigation they launched into journalists who have reported on leaked documents from Edward Snowden has to be kept a secret due to a "possibility of increased threat of terrorist activity."
Following Snowden’s disclosures from the National Security Agency in 2013, London’s (...)
