UK police have been using live facial recognition (LFR) technology for the best part of a decade, with the Met being the first force to deploy it at Notting Hill Carnival in 2016. Since then, the use of the biometric surveillance and identification tool by the Met has ramped up considerably. While the initial deployments…
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As UK police look to increase their adoption of live facial recognition, a House of Lords committee has heard that serious issues remain around the proportionality and necessity of the way forces are using the technology. On 12 December 2023, the Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee (JHAC) – which has launched a short follow-up…
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The Post Office has extended a controversial agreement with IT supplier Fujitsu that will see it support two datacentres to the end of March 2025, at a total additional cost of £36m. Combined with an announcement earlier this year that a services contact with Fujitsu to support the Post Office’s branch accounting system, Horizon, was…
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UK police chiefs have announced plans to equip officers with a mobile-based facial-recognition tool that will enable them to cross reference photos of suspects against a database of millions of custody images from their phones. Known as operator initiated facial recognition (OIFR), the tool uses software supplier NEC’s NeoFace facial-recognition algorithm, and is currently being…
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