Live Facial Recognition technology helping Dorset Police find wanted criminals
Dorset Police in the UK is using Live Facial Recognition technology to identify and locate wanted criminals in real time. The deployment represents part of a broader expansion of facial recognition tools among British law enforcement agencies.
Why this matters: Live facial recognition does not just scan wanted criminals. It scans everyone in range and compares their face to a database before discarding most of them — or not. That is a very different thing from a targeted search. People walking through a public space in Dorset are now being processed by a biometric system without any say in the matter. The useful question is not whether it catches criminals. It is who sets the rules for when it runs, what happens to non-match data, and whether the public has any real recourse if it gets someone wrong.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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