Facial recognition: Feature creep may impose government's software in our lives, expert warns

Singapore to test facial recognition on lampposts, stoking privacy fears

 

"A facial recognition program used by British police yielded thousands of false positives...

During last summer’s Champion’s League Final in Cardiff, Wales, South Wales Police began a facial recognition pilot program designed to check event-goers against a database of 500,000 images of persons of interest. Almost a year later, The Guardian reports that the pilot yielded 2,470 potential matches, of which, 2,297 were found to be “false positives.”...

Despite that high number of false positives results, the SWP say that the pilot has been a 'resounding success,'..."

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/6/1...-recognition-false-positives-privacy-security

 

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/2018...e-home-offices-defence-of-facial-recognition/

 

Looks like good old Pittpatt is getting around.