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Expert rejects Met police claim that study backs bias-free live facial recognition use
Academic says sample size was too small to claim new sensitivity guidelines have removed racial, gender or age bias The Metropolitan police’s claims that their use of live facial recognition is bias-free are not substantiated by the report they cite to support their case, a leading expert on the technology has said. The Met is…
Met chief rejects calls to scrap live facial recognition at Notting Hill carnival
Mark Rowley says technology will be ‘non-discriminatory’ and ‘does not perform in a way which exhibits bias’ The Metropolitan police commissioner has hit back at demands to drop the use of live facial recognition cameras at this weekend’s Notting Hill carnival over concerns of racial bias and an impending legal challenge. Mark Rowley wrote in…
Facial recognition cameras too racially biased to use at Notting Hill carnival, say campaigners
Exclusive: Letter to the Met says technology ‘unfairly targets community that carnival exists to celebrate’ The Met commissioner should scrap plans to deploy live facial recognition (LFR) at next weekend’s Notting Hill carnival because the technology is riven with “racial bias” and subject to a legal challenge, 11 civil liberty and anti-racist groups have demanded.…