Re:Facewatch 'thief recognition' CCTV on trial in UK stores
by falcolas on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @10:32AM
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The database only has convicted thieves in their Database, so in theory they've already served their time for their crime. The problems is that they are then put on an apparently un-auditable list maintained by a private company, and discriminated against.
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Re:Facewatch 'thief recognition' CCTV on trial in UK stores
by DanBC on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @10:55AM
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> The database only has convicted thieves in their Database,
From this article:
> and other potential offenders
And from this article about a different system:
> Police forces are already using face-recognition to identify people, much as they might with DNA or fingerprints.
> A national police database contains up to 18 million "custody suite" photos - hundreds of thousands could be of innocent people.
Many of those people will be those arrested for an offence, but not cautioned or tried. (To be clear here: they really didn't do the crime, not just they weren't convicted of a crime).