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Facial Recognition Trial Performed Poorly at Notting Hill Carnival
The facial recognition trial by London’s Metropolitan Police Service at the Notting Hill Carnival reportedly performed poorly with a high rate of false positives.
- Date it happened
- 2017-08-26
- Organisation involved
- Metropolitan Police Service
- Product, system or model
- "Forces use facial recognition in two ways: one is after the fact, while cross-checking of images against mugshots held in national databases; the other involves real-time scanning of people's faces i
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