Reply to post: Re: It's in its infancy, but it will improve

Metropolitan Police's facial recognition tech not only crap, but also of dubious legality – report

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Re: It's in its infancy, but it will improve

"* You have a personal tracing device in your pocket RIGHT NOW (your phone)."

Running Symbian and off, so ... technically yes, but to all intents and purposes, no.

"* You have listening devices in your home RIGHT NOW (Smart TV, digital assistant, games console...)"

No (well, I have a smart TV, but it can't talk to the internet, due to not being connected to anything)

"* You have behaviour monitoring devices RIGHT NOW (activity tracker, internet connect fridge, home automation...)"

I do not

"* You are using facial recognition RIGHT NOW (Facebook, Windows, Apple...)"

Swing-and-a-miss

"* You are happy to be tracked RIGHT NOW (advertising)"

uBlock Matrix + NoScript says probably not.

"Oh whoops, it's a false positive. Big deal. 30 seconds out of your day to provide ID and carry on."

Or, more liklely, "computer says you're a criminal, the ID's probably fake, come with us while we get it checked" (see how they handle photographers in London*). That will appear on the enhanced disclosure in the DBS process.

If you don't wish to search, try:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/may/10/stop-search-photographer-grant-smith

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/08/police-search-photographer-terrorism-powers

"If anything it will IMPROVE matters massively for those affected by the racist stop-and-search policies as the AI system won't have the inherent biases of the prejudicial police officers."

What do you think an AI trained on an imperfect, imbalanced data set will behave like. If you need a clue, have a look at other articles on here ...

"Get your heads out of your collective bum."

Maybe someone needs to take their own advice ...

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