UK face recognition systems 'dangerously inaccurate'

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UK face recognition systems 'dangerously inaccurate'

Mistakes people for criminals.

The UK's Metropolitan Police's use of facial recognition is misidentifying innocent people as wanted criminals more than nine times out of ten, according to a privacy campaign group. Civil liberties organisation Big Brother Watch (BBW) published its findings into the Met's use of facial ...

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