UK Rail Cops' £320K Face-Scanning Spree Nets Zero Matches
The six-month trial cost more than £320,000 and used almost 100 hours of police time, according to figures obtained by Liberty Investigates and The Guardian.
- A six-month live facial recognition trial by the British Transport Police scanned more than 500,000 faces in London, yet produced zero arrests and only one false positive alert.
- The trial deployed NEC's NeoFace M40 software across 18 stations between February and July, costing more than £320,000 and consuming nearly 100 hours of police time.
- Privacy advocates labeled the results "laughable," with Liberty's Jasleen Chaggar saying the technology raises "troubling implications for our rights and freedoms" through mass facial data processing.
- The BTP announced a four-month extension, expanding deployments to the London Underground, with Transport for London stating the technology will "target and identify people on police watchlists."
- Critics emphasize the lack of a specific legal framework to regulate facial recognition, while Fraser Sampson of Facewatch noted the technology operates differently in public spaces than retail settings.
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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
A 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,
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British Transport Police’s six-month facial recognition pilot produced one alert, and it was a false positive
Facial recognition trial at railway stations cost £320k and led to just one alert... which was wrong
Facial recognition trial at railway stations cost £320k and led to just one alert... which was wrong . British Transport Police spent more than £320,000 on a six-month live facial recognition (LFR) trial across London's railway stations, scanning upwards of half a million faces yet failing to produce a single arrest
London's live facial recognition trial ends in one false positive, no arrests, and a £320k bill
More than 500,000 faces were scanned by the live facial recognition systems set up in London's railway stations by the British Transport Police. At a cost of £320,786 (about $423,000) the numbers are in: the system scored "one false match against a watchlist of suspects" and notched up zero arrests over the course of a six-month trial. — Read the rest The post London's live facial recognition trial ends in one false positive, no arrests, and a £…
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