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London's top cop isn't expecting facial recog tech to result in 'lots of arrests'

Lee D Silver badge

But they're not.

That's a silly use case.

They're looking for possibly 100,000 people out of possibly 70m people. At that point - in fact, WAY before that point - the numbers explode and even an accurate system has an atrocious false positive error rate.

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