Home Office secretly backs facial recognition technology to curb shoplifting

Covert government strategy to install electronic surveillance in shops raises issues around bias and data, and contrasts sharply with the EU ban to keep AI out of public spaces
The covert strategy was agreed during a closed-door meeting on 8 March between policing minister Chris Philp, senior Home Office officials and the private firm Facewatch

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/29/home-office-secretly-backs-facial-recognition-technology-to-curb-shoplifting

#FaceRecognition #surviellence #police

@augustus
Interesting story, aside from #reCAPTCHA and #Waymo. Circa 2018, #googleWorkers apparently formed a protest/Union against producing #militaryDrones.

Even though the military said they were "just for #surviellence" and "taking pictures" the workers believed there wasn't much difference between shooting a photo or bullet.

Maybe it was just a #publicRelations stunt on behalf of #Google though. Within a year #hCaptcha was released — datasets they get are *seriously* creepy.

#ai
@yogthos