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).
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).