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The Register: UK rail cops’ £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches
The Register: UK rail cops’ £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches. “British Transport Police (BTP) spent more than £320,000 putting half a million commuters through live facial recognition cameras, only for the system to identify precisely nobody it was looking for.”
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British Transport Police Facial Recognition Trial Scanned 926,912 People With Zero Arrests
By Cam Wakefield | Reclaim The Net | October 3, 2026 So what does it take for a police force to stop using a “trial” deployment of live facial recognition (LFR) technology? Apparently, scanning the faces of more than half a million people and catching nobody is not it. In fact, it gets you an […]
The Register: UK rail cops’ £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches
The Register: UK rail cops’ £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches. “British Transport Police (BTP) spent more than £320,000 putting half a million commuters through live facial recognition cameras, only for the system to identify precisely nobody it was looking for.”
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