"Facial Recognition is about failing to catch everybody else."
Facial recognition which is used by the plod to help narrow in on someone might be useful - as in "I've got something that looks a bit like who you're looking for, but you need to check it".
Facial recognition which can't pick up people being looked for is useless.
Facial recognition which is being used as an excuse to harrass the innocent is a menace. "Computer says you match Ronnie Biggs. I don't care if you're obviously an 87year old black grandmother, you're fucking nicked"
Unfortunately, it seems to be all about the latter. Not the Nine O'Clock News pieces on PC Savage weren't supposed to be a documentary.
Then again, Alan B'stard wasn't supposed to exist in real life either.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
