Police Facial Recognition trials on the streets of London
 

What is Live Facial Recognition?
Live Facial Recognition (LFR), is technology that can identify a person from a digital image. The technology is being used to assist in the prevention and detection of crime by identifying wanted criminals.

The LFR cameras are focused on an area, when people pass through the area their images are streamed directly to the Live Facial Recognition system database. This database contains the ‘watch list’: a list of offenders wanted by the police and courts for various offences.

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How the system works
Live Facial Recognition uses NEC’s NeoFace technology to analyse images of the faces of people on the watch list. It measures the structure of each face, including distance between eyes, nose, mouth and jaw to create facial data.

The system detects a face, creates a digital version of it and searches it against the watch list; where it makes a match it sends an alert to an officer on the scene.

The officer compares the camera image and the watch list image and decides whether to stop and speak to the person. We always explain why we’ve stopped someone; we also give them a leaflet that explains how they can contact us to ask any questions afterwards.

The system will only keep faces matching the watch list, these are kept for 30 days, all others are deleted immediately. We delete all other data on the watch list and the footage we record.

Anyone can refuse to be scanned; it's not an offence or considered ‘obstruction’ to actively avoid being scanned.

How we’re using facial recognition
The Met is trialling Live Facial Recognition technology. We’re testing it in a range of environments including public events and crowded public spaces.

Wherever we’ve used it, we’ve done so openly. That means:

information leaflets handed out to the public
posters placed in and around the area to make people aware the technology is being used
officers engaging with members of the public to explain the process

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To date we’ve used it six times, at:

Notting Hill Carnival in 2016 and 2017
Remembrance Day 2017
Port of Hull docks (assisting Humberside Police) in 2018
Stratford transport hub for two days in June and July 2018

There will be four more LFR trials, ten in total, before we evaluate the trial at the end of 2018. Future deployments under consideration are: football sporting events, music festivals and transport hubs.

The Met will assess and analyse the results, which will be accredited by independent authorities.

We’ll also hold a public consultation to discuss the use of facial recognition and to canvass public concerns about it. An Advisory Consultation Group (ACG) of key stakeholders has been set up to discuss the use of Live Facial Recognition.

We welcome feedback now – if you have any views or queries about this trial you can contact us directly here.

Why we're trialling LFR
We're trialling the new technology to find out if it's a useful policing tactic to deter and prevent crime and bring to justice wanted criminals.

The trial has been set up to find out if the technology and how we use it can work in a range of locations, conditions and scenarios with the engagement of the public.

We feel it's important to run the trial in real life conditions to get accurate data and learn as much as possible from it.

so they can capture someone who offends another on twitter much faster. perfect.

Solution: Don't be an Asshole, Criminal, Troll or a Stalker and you will be fine.

So you're against free speech. We're not here, so fuck off.

It should all be controlled by AI and NOT humans that are bias ands racist and everything will be fine.

haha I guarantee the robots will be racist :thumbsup

They deal in facts.

Facts you call racist.

YES!!!! All hate speech should and will be banned. People like you should be fined heavily each time until you learn. And if you don't learn Lock OnHungLo UP!!!! Lock OnHungLo UP!!!! Lock OnHungLo UP!!!!
It's coming.
Hate Speech is not Free Speech. We Libs are coming for you.

Who determines what is hate speech? I'm called a racist but use the same standards when judging people whatever the colour of their skin. Often by people who have different standards depending on the colour of skin.

Why is it that when people go online they act in a way they wouldn't face to face?

For instance there are people here who love to insult others, I'm guilty of it but trying to change, some I've met and in real life they couldn't be more pleasant. Often apologising for their hate speech.

It's quite common for AI models to show racism because those models are usually created with data supplied by (or generated by) humans, which may also show a bias.

For example, if Police patrol a black neighborhood more aggressively, they'll make more arrests there, even if the crime level is the same as everywhere else. That skews the data. The AI model then concludes that people living in the black neighborhood are more likely to offend.

this is a road to disaster. Actually, one of the many steps that you guys obviously got used to

AI with Deep Learning will make the decisions with out human interference. Moral people would oversee the AI. And at least innocent African American and others wont be killed or be put in gail. That should be a good thing.

I'll hate whatever the fuck I want and speak about it if I choose.

It won't be illegal here!!! You would have to change our constitution and it isn't happening!

You will still find AA will be targeted more and then you will blame whoever programmed the robots as being racist. It's a never ending circle jerk for you dumb libs.

You make yourself a hateful racist. Facts don't make you a hateful racist.

Why do you people never take responsibility for what you say and do?

What could possibly go wrong...

It was only a matter of time... We will have zero privacy.

This will make things difficult for criminals for sure.

And illegals. They are all up in arms about it in a sanctuary city here in Massachusetts.

when do we all get chipped?...oh and when are the time credits coming? cant wait for that shit...


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If you have a mobile phone you're already "chipped" :2 cents:

yes but they will find a "great reason" to chip us like animals subdermally...so that they can track us off camera...or they will make some faggot drones that will follow you around and spy on your shit :2 cents:

Yeah just like they did with those Amazon echos that people have in their house their recording everything they say and sending it back to Amazon to store. Creepy shit.

The tracker they put in people they will say it's for a really good cause like your health and they won't tell people it's a tracker in the beginning.

i wood lik that drone... :2 cents:

Social credit system coming to China with citizens scored on behavior.
Bad People and Racist get punished.
They have digital shame board in public for bad behavior.
Your hate speak will be gone when this comes.

China's social credit experiment is evil & cruel

This tech is much further along than you can imagine. I have followed it even before I was part of it.

It is already 3 steps ahead of what you might comprehend. It has been used by law enforcement, mainly the FBI and NSA for many years now.

2 things that might surprise you is that Facebook has been working with the government and they developed highly accurate tech to extract that info from your online video and photos, and surveillance cameras .

Some years ago, they discovered the secret to the high accuracy and that was that they had to quit looking at only the visible light range. A standard CCD imager that is found in your smartphone of and video device anymore, sees infrared light better than visible light (normally, they filter the infrared out) and that is the range that does the trick for the most accurate versions of this. I can even spot infrared eliminators to know they are doing it in some cases.

If you might have noticed, when you go to the BMV now, they do not require you to remove your eyeglasses. This is a highly accurate system now and glasses will not throw it off, but a ballcap might. Many reasons for that.

Facebook and some others have even taken this a few steps more. They can read your emotions from your facial expressions in real time. Originally the research was for the commercial market where you might be captured viewing a product in a store and get a recorded reaction from your experience of perhaps a price tag that is to high etc.

But this can be carried way beyond that in the real world.

The skinny is you should be skeptical of the potential uses since at this point, you may not be able to fathom what they might be.

But you would be surprised to know just how much it is being used right now.
It does not have to track you in real time. just record events for later determination.
But who should be able to access that data and what if it is hacked. It certainly will be sold.

Many more questions than answers and you should have the answers before you realize the questions. I am not totally against it but it must have a set of expandable defined rules or I am totally against it.

Think of it's use in politics... did your mayor visit a flop house or did you visit the NRA or party headquarters ?
It may seem like harmless info now but that's because nobody has had it to create a use for it yet.
Someone is going to make money, Even for the bribery factor.

I remember when doing a Google image search of a person's face would bring up variations of different images of them on Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere on the web. It was awesome! Then they dumbed down Google image search and you only can see different sites that same images on total bullshit. That 8-10 years ago

The question becomes...
Do you own your own bio-metric data ? Can it be stored ? for what purpose ? can it be sold ? for what purpose ? should you be notified when any of this happens ? should you be told the intended use ? should there be a penalty for allowing it to be stolen (hacked) or breaking the rules ? Of course, there are no rules. And if it is allowed to continue, I will be using it myself to annoy politicians till they do something about it.


In the years I have followed this, I thought about a legal approach of copyrighting my bio-metric data. retina scan, fingerprint, and facial recognition map.
And if it did not require posting, my dna.

Seems far out but, who knows what the future holds.
I see a day very soon when they can determine you sexual orientation and political tendencies from the same data.

The research is very young yet but advancing very rapidly.
Most of it has went underground somewhat to avoid consumer backlash.
Many or most will not be aware of what is going on till it really is everywhere.
The Chinese are not wasting any time implementing it on their population and you will not know what they are collecting or the reasons for it. but they are behind that which has been done in the US at this point.

The gears of government moves slowly for a reason.

They'll fuck us for 10 to 20 years until the law "finally catches up" just like they do with Facebook, free porn etcetera.

Yes this goes too far but a system for Hate Speech, Nazis , White Nationalist, Criminals, Rapists and Evil people should be developed.

I heard on the news the San Francisco has banned the use of these cameras.

this is fucking wrong way

Yes they did.
But that will not stop the state or federal government from using the tech in SF.
That just stops you and I.
Can you tell when this is being done ? I think not.

Having a tech background helps me but every cam is suspect. But if I see IR illuminators, I know for sure they are after highly accurate info.
The data can be extracted with any cam , video or photo but those especially set-up are so much more accurate.

Law enforcement (mainly the FBI) uses it taken from any surveillance cam and searched all social media sites.
Think about that the next time there is a crime and they find them by their social media posts.

I find nothing wrong with it's use in this manor. But there is no limits to how it can be used. There are no rules.
And you will not have them if you do not demand them.

They should all be tagged & bagged :2 cents:

Wonder where they'll keep their precogs