The really worrying thing for me is they use the excuse that they are looking for > "potential terrorist targets"
and then say
> "poor quality images" supplied by agencies including Uefa
UEFA is the governing body of the European football championship, now obviously famed for fighting terrorism. Terrorism is the excuse they love to use to take away civil liberties.
It continues to worry me
> over 450 arrests
and then discusses 2 convictions. It is a very worrying world we are slipping into where getting lots of arrests counts as a result
> no-one had been arrested after an incorrect match
This is not for the police to decide, it is for the courts. Hi-five 450 and 2 convictions of note
> The technology has also helped identify vulnerable people in times of crisis.
So it's already being used more generally than arresting terrorists, and football hooligans! It crept up on us over the course of one article!
[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/05/police-defend-fa...
When you point accuracy that poor at a sample so large the number of false positives is so colossally large that the resources to 'filter manually' are large, meanwhile a free- country is branding huge numbers of innocent people as possible suspects. So no it doesn't work. For it to work in a free-country we should be looking at five-nine accuracy at least.
> 3) Having a working solution would mean they could police with fewer police officers
But they don't have one...