London police to roll out facial recognition CCTV

[Gawdzilla Sama]

My identical twin need to go into hiding.

From shame?

[Anomalocaris]

The Metropolitan Police has announced it will use live facial recognition cameras operationally for the first time on London streets.

The cameras will be in use for five to six hours at a time, with bespoke lists of suspects wanted for serious and violent crimes drawn up each time.

Police say the cameras identified 70% of suspects but an independent review found much lower accuracy.

Privacy campaigners said it was a "serious threat to civil liberties".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51237665

I've got no problem with this I don't think. It's just automating one aspect of police officers' jobs (recognising wanted criminals) but in a far more efficient and cost-effective way. Would the Statue of Liberty weep if this were rolled out in the states?

In China they don’t just use CCTV for this.  Apparently they’ve developed clear goggles with projection display for police officers that contains a camera and an air data link.   As the officer looks around what he sees is relayed by camera and data link to some central computer, which applies facial recognition and identify the people the policeman sees, and sends back detailed ID and data on each person, which are than projected onto the officer’s google so he sees each person around him with a floating data bubble over their heads.   Suspects and what they are suspected of are automatically identified. 

Replace the policeman too and the journey to sky net shall be complete.

[Duty]

Skynet? Without the self-awareness/consciousness, nuclear apocalypse and terminator acolytes presumably.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51237665

I've got no problem with this I don't think. It's just automating one aspect of police officers' jobs (recognising wanted criminals) but in a far more efficient and cost-effective way. Would the Statue of Liberty weep if this were rolled out in the states?

In China they don’t just use CCTV for this.  Apparently they’ve developed clear goggles with projection display for police officers that contains a camera and an air data link.   As the officer looks around what he sees is relayed by camera and data link to some central computer, which applies facial recognition and identify the people the policeman sees, and sends back detailed ID and data on each person, which are than projected onto the officer’s google so he sees each person around him with a floating data bubble over their heads.   Suspects and what they are suspected of are automatically identified. 

Replace the policeman too and the journey to sky net shall be complete.

It would be cool if it were real.

[onlinebiker]

Big Brother has a hardon....

[Mr Greene]

It might have detrimental effect based on demographics.
Facial recognition software tends to be good at identifying individuals belonging to the dominant group in the region where they were developed. ie, western software tends to return a higher proportion of false positives for people of African or Asian descent. The reverse is true of Chinese software which gets confused by European features.
The group most consistently misidentified by software regardless of region is women.

[Duty]

A simple "wallet check" of ID could easily rectify any false positives. Such checks are not racist due to the well laid out reasons identified above and woke fee fees regarding that matter can fuck off and die in the gutter in the face of pragmatic realism AFAIK as always.

[Anomalocaris]

In China they don’t just use CCTV for this.  Apparently they’ve developed clear goggles with projection display for police officers that contains a camera and an air data link.   As the officer looks around what he sees is relayed by camera and data link to some central computer, which applies facial recognition and identify the people the policeman sees, and sends back detailed ID and data on each person, which are than projected onto the officer’s google so he sees each person around him with a floating data bubble over their heads.   Suspects and what they are suspected of are automatically identified. 

Replace the policeman too and the journey to sky net shall be complete.

It would be cool if it were real.

Oh, it is....

Chinese police goggles

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It might have detrimental effect based on demographics.
Facial recognition software tends to be good at identifying individuals belonging to the dominant group in the region where they were developed. ie, western software tends to return a higher proportion of false positives for people of African or Asian descent. The reverse is true of Chinese software which gets confused by European features.
The group most consistently misidentified by software regardless of region is women.

That kind of problem is caused by insufficiently intensive effort to hack everyone else’s facial recognition database.    Once everyone’s data has been hacked by everyone else, the bias will go away.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"testing since last month". We'll see.

[EgoDeath]

"It'll make us safer!" they'll cry as we're all being driven off of a cliff. LOL. Shame.