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By a Staff Writer

May 16 2018 11:56AM

Mistakes people for criminals.

UK face recognition systems 'dangerously inaccurate'

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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