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Quote:Scotland Yard IS using facial recognition tech
Submitted by nonprofiteer on Thursday August 11, @05:40PM

Scotland Yard confirms that it's using facial recognition technology to identify rioters in London. "A law enforcement official, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said that facial recognition is one of many tools police are using to hunt suspects still at large."

Meanwhile, the vigilante group trying an amateur stab applying facial recognition to the riot photos abandoned the project because the results sucked: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/...r-project/

This is the big test of the surveillance state that London has become. Are all those cameras effective, or just taking a toll on privacy without bringing added security? http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/ar...et/243445/

Link to Original Source

http://slashdot.org/submission/1753776/S...ition-tech

This whole facial recognition technology. One day it will be the standard but now? To local forces? No doubt military / intelligence level FRT is evolved enough to see through balaclavas. Scotland Yard probably has it installed but doesn't want to show its hand as far as how advanced it is and/or to justify increased public funding for new spy gizmos.