British Transport Police spent £320,786 testing live facial recognition at London stations and scanned more than 500,000 faces; the six-month trial produced one alert, and that person was wrongly identified
- Representative imageA six-month trial of live facial recognition at London railway stations cost British Transport Police (BTP) £320,786 and scanned more than 500,000 faces, but it produced just one alert from the police watchlist.
- That alert turned out to be a false identification, with no arrest resulting directly from the technology during the trial period.
- The findings were reported by The Guardian, which reviewed a freedom of information document obtained by Liberty Investigates.
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- Representative imageA six-month trial of live facial recognition at London railway stations cost British Transport Police (BTP) £320,786 and scanned more than 500,000 faces, but it produced just one alert from the police watchlist.
- That alert turned out to be a false identification, with no arrest resulting directly from the technology during the trial period.
- The findings were reported by The Guardian, which reviewed a freedom of information document obtained by Liberty Investigates.
Sources: Times of India