More than 50 sex offenders arrested as police use facial recognition technology in new crackdown

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/more-than-50-sex-offenders-arrested-as-police-use-facial-recognition-technology/

by Fox_9810

15 comments

  1. I don’t want to do their jobs for them, catching 50 good for them and whatnot, but 200,000 people in the country have bought Teslas.

    If you really wanted to make a dent in the number of sex offenders out there, why not just round them up instead of putting so much more effort into this AI stuff?

    Utterly baffling.

  2. It’s nice to hear tbf. Hopefully can make a start on all the non convicted ones.

  3. Pulling out the “we must have total surveillance because pedophiles” card again, I see.

  4. “Your nicked sunshine!”

    “What’s for?!?!”

    “Cause you got a pedo face!”

  5. You could pay one relatively chipper, youthful sounding officer to go on Roblox for half an hour and round up just as many with a lot less effort.

  6. they’re people that dont give fuck about commiting crimes and going to prison for. dont blame us for it blame theirselfs.

  9. They trying to win public opinion by saying thisThen they was all was released with a slap on the wrist anyway it shouldn’t be allowed remember give them an inch they take a mile

  10. Why do they need facial recognition to do it? Just catfish them

  11. Imagine how arrests could follow if they didn’t just use a single van and sifted all CCTV with general access .

  12. First of all, it was only ever going to be used for terrorists and the most serious crimes, now it’s sex offenders and thieves.

    Feature creep before they’ve even fully deployed it.

    Feed it the passport database and you can track the movements of anyone you like, but I’m sure the intelligence services would never abuse data like that (again).

  13. > If a match is identified, officers may take steps to verify a person’s identity and investigate their involvement in any alleged offences.

    They should report the number of people who have been caught and released too. Was it another 50, 500 or 5000?

  14. I guess the issue is what pictures do the Police have to check against. If it’s previously convicted criminals that’s one thing. If it’s access to the entire database of all our passports and we are all scanned that seems a bit intrusive.

    This technology will likely be in every shop we go into soon and how long before it’s on all CCTV cameras.

    So it probably needs a proper law governing its use and rules around what pictures it checks against.

    Also are there any racial biases what faces it matches and where they deploy it etc

  15. It’s a serious attack on basic privacy, I don’t want my face tracked when I’m in public and that’s completely reasonable, this is vile.

    You’d think this stuff would only be used under dictatorship regimes, having it used in the UK by police and private companies is mad.

    The fact about how a lot of people defend it or are complacent with it boggles me

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