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    Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England

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    2. quarky_uk on

      Why are the police using technology to find suspects? They should yet rid of all photos too. Go back to drawings.

      Quick, smash the looms!

    3. LiveLaughLockheed on

      When solved crime stats haven’t changed by 2028, (around 15% of crimes are actually closed with a suspect charged), then we will know that this is really just an uplift in surveillance on ordinary people, rather than a productive crime solving tool.

    4. jamesbeil on

      “The Home Office said the LFR vans will only be deployed when there is “specific intelligence”, and will be operated by trained officers who will check every match made by the cameras.”

      Bollocks. This will be rolled out everywhere and we will all be subject to constant, warrantless surveillance while the police still refuse to do *anything* about any of the crimes affecting the peasants.

    5. disordered-attic-2 on

      Don’t all the serious criminals all wear masks?

      So really this is for catching people with overdue parking fines.

    6. FelisCantabrigiensis on

      You can bet that everyone who holds up a sign criticising the Israeli Government will soon find themselves on the list used by this equipment, as only one example.

    7. Drp345 on

      Guess we’re all getting face tattoos then??

      Either that or face painting on a regular basis.

    8. mrkoala1234 on

      Can’t we have a more affordable ice cream van on the road instead of adding more CCTV cameras to the streets?

    10. FlockBoySlim on

      There’s already been cases of people wrongly flagged by these facial recognition cameras, in fact the met are already being sued by a couple of folk who were arrested due to a mistake by the facial recognition software.

    12. FTXACCOUNTANT on

      Why is the UK going so dystopian with the heavy monitoring and invasion of privacy so much in recent years?

    13. PsychologySpecific16 on

      I remember government ministers criticising the use of facial recognition in China as being part of a pervasive police state.