Sir Mark Rowley, the Met commissioner, welcomed the decision and said the tech “helps us catch more criminals quickly and precisely, saves officer time, and ultimately saves money”.<\/p>\n
He said there had only been about a dozen misidentifications “out of three million people walking past the cameras” and no one had been wrongly arrested as a result.<\/p>\n
Policing Minister, Sarah Jones said: “I welcome today’s ruling because there can be no true liberty when people live in fear of crime in their communities.<\/p>\n
“Live facial recognition only locates specifically wanted people – law abiding citizens have nothing to fear.<\/p>\n
“This technology puts dangerous rapists and murderers behind bars – and I question any group who call that uncivil.<\/p>\n
“We are rolling out facial recognition across the country with record investment to keep communities safe.”<\/p>\n
‘Stop and search on steroids’<\/strong><\/p>\n But Mr Thompson said he hoped to appeal and insisted he had been “misidentified, detained and threatened with arrest” due to LFT.<\/p>\n “No one should be treated like a criminal due to a computer error,” he said.<\/p>\n “I was compliant with the police, but my bank cards and passport weren’t enough to convince the police the facial recognition tech was wrong.<\/p>\n “It’s like stop and search on steroids.”<\/p>\n The Home Office has previously defended the use of LFR.<\/p>\n It said a person’s image is “immediately and automatically” deleted if it does not match the watchlist and all deployments are “targeted, intelligence-led, time-bound, and geographically limited”.<\/p>\n Thirteen forces were using it by the end of last year and the\u00a0home secretary said in January that the number of LFR vans would increase from 10 to 50<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n However, Essex Police\u00a0paused its use of the technology earlier this year<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0after a study found it was “statistically significantly more likely” to correctly identify black people than other ethnicities.<\/p>\n While it was “extremely rare” for someone to be flagged up if they weren’t on the list, the force said they was a “potential bias in the positive identification rate”.<\/p>\n The force said in March it believed the issue had been fixed by updating the algorithm and the system was ready for the streets again.<\/p>\n Source: \u00a0![\"Sky](\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sky-news-logo-1.png\"){kind=logo}
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