UK police urged to double down on facial recognition

In a controversial move, UK police is being encouraged to double its use of retrospective facial recognition to track down known offenders. Specifically, in a letter to force chiefs, policing minister Chris Philp said that using the AI-enabled technology  would allow for over 200,000 searches of images against the Police National Database by May 2024. Philp also encouraged the increase of live facial recognition, which captures live footage of crowds and compares it with a list of wanted suspects to …

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