Essex Police resume Corsight AI LFR with 57 arrests, no false matches
Essex Police have resumed using Corsight AI's live facial recognition technology, reporting 57 arrests and no recorded false matches from the system's deployment.
Why this matters: A 'no false matches' claim from the agency running the surveillance is not the same as independent verification. Live facial recognition scans people who have done nothing wrong, in real time, without their knowledge or consent. The 57 arrests sound like a success story, but the number that matters is who was wrongly flagged and never made the news. Police departments do not have a clean track record of self-reporting errors on biometric tools. Someone outside Essex Police needs to be checking that data.
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