Met Police Scans Almost 250k Faces Using Facial Recognition Technology in 2023

Re:Met Police Scans Almost 250k Faces Using Facial Recogniti... by mb5 on Saturday November 11, 2023 @05:52AM (#38229175)

> the Met’s director of intelligence Lindsey Chiswick said that if there is not a match the image is not only immediately deleted, but is also pixelated

Which is it?

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Re:Met Police Scans Almost 250k Faces Using Facial Recogniti... by rad_gruchalski on Saturday November 11, 2023 @06:03AM (#38229226)

Or maybe blurred, she has no idea. “Director of intelligence”, fitting job title.

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Re:Met Police Scans Almost 250k Faces Using Facial Recogniti... by miohtama on Saturday November 11, 2023 @08:32AM (#38230152)

There is zero reason to store pixelates images.

Has there been an independent audit of police activities regarding this?

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Re:Met Police Scans Almost 250k Faces Using Facial Recogniti... by klyrs on Saturday November 11, 2023 @12:55PM (#38232644)

Make two copies. Delete one, and resize the other. Keep the original.

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