Devon and Cornwall Police use facial recognition technology
Devon and Cornwall Police have begun using facial recognition technology, according to a BBC report. The adoption marks an expansion of live facial recognition use among UK regional police forces.
Why this matters: Facial recognition in the hands of a regional police force is not a minor technical upgrade. It means people walking in Devon and Cornwall can be identified, tracked, and flagged without ever being suspected of anything. The technology makes mistakes at higher rates for certain groups. And once a force has it, the pressure to use it more tends to grow. The real accountability question is simple: who decides when it runs, whose faces go into the database, and what happens when it gets someone wrong.
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