An CCTV camera on a wall in King's Cross, London. One review of facial-recognition trials by London police found that 63.6%, or almost two-thirds, of computer-generated matches deemed credible by a human operator turned out to be incorrect. — AFP
Facial recognition has friends in Europe. Live trials of real-time face-tracking have taken place over the past year in countries such as the UK and France, by and large without falling foul of the continent’s sweeping but haphazardly-enforced data protection laws.
This should be a wake-up call for regulators to act. But the trials also offer a taste of the public-safety argument which will be trotted out to defend this intrusive, flawed technology, glamorised by TV shows like 24 to solve fictional terrorist plots.
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