The Met has made promises to the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, after an independent ethics review raised concerns over its earlier trials of facial recognition software. Facial recognition frequently sparks two distinct fears: that it will not work well enough, or that it will work too well. Worse, the errors are not evenly distributed; facial recognition systems have regularly been found to be inaccurate at identifying people with darker skin. Alex Hern Technology editorAllan Hogarth, from Amnesty International UK, said: “The Met’s decision to introduce facial recognition technology poses a huge threat to human rights. Facial recognition technology gives the state unprecedented power to track and monitor any one of us, destroying our privacy and our free expression.”South Wales police already use live facial recognition.

Source: The Guardian January 24, 2020 13:17 UTC