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Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England
- The Home Office announced the rollout of 10 live facial recognition vans across seven police forces to identify sex offenders and serious criminals.
- This expansion follows targeted trials in London and South Wales and coincides with calls for more powers to tackle crimes like off-road biking and shop theft.
- The vans will be managed by police personnel using customized watch lists developed according to College of Policing standards, and their deployment will be governed by strict oversight and specific operational conditions.
- The Metropolitan Police recorded 580 arrests over a year for crimes such as sexual assault, domestic violence, and knife-related offenses, while the Home Office confirmed that independent testing found no bias in the facial recognition algorithm.
- Despite police reassurances and independent testing, critics urge scrapping the expansion until a statutory framework is in place, citing risks of misidentification and lack of transparency.
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The ethics behind facial recognition vans and policing
The government will equip seven police forces in England with new live facial recognition (LFR) vans in a bid to trace suspects of serious crimes, including murder and sexual assaults, more effectively.The Home Office announced that it would give the forces shared access to 10 new vans, which can scan the faces of people passing by and match them against a database of suspects. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the technology will be used in a "…
Cooper defends live facial recognition technology expansion amid privacy row
The Home Secretary said ‘safeguards and protections’ would govern use of the cameras. The Home Secretary has defended the Government’s expansion of live facial recognition technology as a “targeted” crackdown on high-harm offenders, amid concerns over privacy. Yvette Cooper denied the technology was being used to catch lower-level crimes such as ticket-touting, as it has been previously in Wales, and said “safeguards and protections” will govern…
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