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UK Police Are Testing Facial Recognition on Christmas Shoppers in London this Week (theverge.com)
London's Metropolitan Police is testing its facial recognition technology in the capital this week. From a report: It's the seventh time the Metropolitan Police, the UK capital's police force, has trialled facial recognition in public. The technology has previously been used at large events, including Notting Hill Carnival in 2016 and 2017, and Remembrance Day services last year. This year, the technology is being used Monday and Tuesday of this week in Soho, Piccadilly Circus, and Leicester Square -- all major shopping areas in the heart of the city.
Cameras are fixed to lampposts or deployed on vans, and use software developed by Japanese firm NEC to measure the structure of passing faces. This scan is then compared to a database of police mugshots. The Met says a match via the software will prompt officers to examine the individual and decide whether or not to stop them. Posters will inform the public they're liable to be scanned while walking in certain areas, and the Met says anyone declining to be scanned "will not be viewed as suspicious."
Cameras are fixed to lampposts or deployed on vans, and use software developed by Japanese firm NEC to measure the structure of passing faces. This scan is then compared to a database of police mugshots. The Met says a match via the software will prompt officers to examine the individual and decide whether or not to stop them. Posters will inform the public they're liable to be scanned while walking in certain areas, and the Met says anyone declining to be scanned "will not be viewed as suspicious."
Glad to see the Brits haven't given up on the 1984 dystopia!
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Does the UK have a presumption of innocence? Because I seem to recall that maybe it doesn't. And that changes that whole "viewed with suspicion" thing a lot.
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This is Why UK cities have lower crime rates. The police there are far more efficient.
with their radiant example leading the way, China.
This is how you secure a nation aganst extremist muslim terrorism. Dispatch the cucks and get on with securing the country. Churchill would have done it, too.
Churchill was a great war time leader and is rightly commended for that, he was a terribly overhanded peace-time leader though and had more than a few negative characteristics. I've no doubt you're right and Churchill would have approved of this, but that doesn't make it right.
Very few people want to live in an overbearing police state. I certainly wouldn't.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Although that strategy could explain the reported 100% FAILURE rate that the system has produced.
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
MATRIX will get you so no tech on this planet could possibly stop it.
Stop and frisk has to be more successful
So, why does it supersize anyone that they are so heavily monitored?
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
with DEEZ NUTZ!!!
I don't think it's a coincidence that Orwell was British. While the US likes to spy on it's own people and abuses power, the Western country that takes the surveillance society cake is the UK.
They're making a list
And checking it twice;
They're gonna find out who's naughty and nice
Bobbies spying through CCTV
They see you when you're sleeping
They know when you're awake
They know if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake!
O! You better watch out!
You better not cry
Better not pout
I'm telling you why
Bobbies peeping through CCTV
Bobbies spying through CCTV
Bloody Bobbies are peeping through CCTV!!!!!
And you all know you are naughty, you should be in jail the lot of you!!!!
And this is possible how exactly?
By staying inside your home I guess...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
People seem to be missing an important point with these FR cameras. Given their dismal record of accuracy, its seems farcical to expect that the purpose of their deployment is to identify wanted criminals or suspects, at least until the technology improves and the images in the mugshots database are updated with better lighted and higher resolution pictures for more accurate matches. No, the immediate purpose of these cameras is to deter criminals, or terrorists from showing up in crowded areas. With the police publicly announcing in the press and with putting signs about the cameras in and around the major shopping venues, they're hoping that the criminals won't want to risk being identified by the police and thus will stay away.
The "open borders" of many Western nations facilitate the entry of ethnic or racial groups which lack the will or the intellect to assimilate into Western culture. Such groups include Hispanics and Middle Easterners, and they exhibit high rates of violent crime. Facial-recognition software is needed to identify the numerous violent criminals in such groups.
Two strong indicators that an ethnic or racial group lacks the will or the intellect to assimilate are (1) exhibiting a disproportionately high rate of violence and (2) demanding preferential treatment.
Consider Middle Easterners. According to a report by the BBC, "in 8.5% of all crimes [in Germany in 2017], German police suspected a [Middle-Eastern] migrant of involvement. But for violent crime that figure was even higher, at 15%, according to a report in Die Zeit." (Get more information about his issue.)
Now, consider Hispanics. Hispanics commit murder at 3 times and 6 times the rate at which European-Americans and Asian-Americans, respectively, commit murder. (Get more information about this issue.)
Of course, Hispanics expect, demand, and receive preferential treatment from most politicians, bureaucrats, and administrators via (typically) affirmative action. (Get more information about this issue.)
The "open borders" of many Western nations facilitate the entry of ethnic or racial groups which lack the will or the intellect to assimilate into Western culture. Such groups include Hispanics and Middle Easterners, and they exhibit high rates of violent crime. Facial-recognition software is needed to identify the numerous violent criminals in such groups.
Two strong indicators that an ethnic or racial group lacks the will or the intellect to assimilate are (1) exhibiting a disproportionately high rate of violence and (2) demanding preferential treatment.
Consider Middle Easterners. According to a report by the BBC, "in 8.5% of all crimes [in Germany in 2017], German police suspected a [Middle-Eastern] migrant of involvement. But for violent crime that figure was even higher, at 15%, according to a report in Die Zeit." (Get more information about his issue.)
Now, consider Hispanics. Hispanics commit murder at 3 times and 6 times the rate at which European-Americans and Asian-Americans, respectively, commit murder. (Get more information about this issue.)
Of course, Hispanics expect, demand, and receive preferential treatment from most politicians, bureaucrats, and administrators via (typically) affirmative action. (Get more information about this issue.)
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For anything concerning Big Brother Is Watching You, go to the UK. All the more so, with the current ascent of tribalism and xenophobia in that country: they have to have the means to find out whether or not people belong there.
that the UK (and Canada! And American Democrats!) took his instruction manual to heart. Ray Bradbury, too. What? Those books were a *warning*??
Very few people want to live in an overbearing police state. I certainly wouldn't.
Police states would be great. Most of us probably would like to live in a well-run police state. That would basically do things like actually catch the jerks who go around breaking into cars and stealing stuff *as their profession*. Problem is our laws have penalized really stupid things forever, going far beyond things that are necessarily wrong (like stealing stuff and attacking people) and into stuff that's making police morality police (like sodomy, interracial marriage, and drug use). And so long as police are morality police, their power needs to be very, very carefully curbed.
Most people out shopping for Xmas are unlikely to be Muslims.
Way to fail, lol.
Truth isn't Truth - Guliani
Donâ(TM)t kid yourself. I bet they were doing this in the USA for years already. We just gave it to them to help with testing.
The 2010s will be known as the decade when humans started to use technology for evil, suppression and populace control.
" and the Met says anyone declining to be scanned "will not be viewed as suspicious"
So, anyone in a burka will be given a cavity search?
Just another day in Paradise
So now the authorities can claim more of the assailants are "known to police" and the Brits can light more candles and place more teddy bears. Way to be proactive.