Fooling the Covid-Cops

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Britain’s Metropolitan Police is to use live facial recognition (LFR) cameras linked to powerful computers on London’s streets despite scepticism from experts over how efficient the system is and widespread concerns over civil liberties. It is said that the system has less than a 19 per cent success rate.

The Met predictably rejected claims the scheme was ‘a breath-taking assault on rights’. Cops said the system would launch next month and would be aimed at catching serious criminals and tracking down missing persons.

However, some of its dubious claims came under fire from the expert it hired to scrutinise two years’ worth of trials. The Met said the system was 70% effective at spotting wanted suspects and falsely identified someone as wanted in one in a thousand cases.

Professor Pete Fussey, an expert on surveillance from Essex University who conducted the only known independent review of the Met’s public trials on behalf of the force found it was verifiably accurate in just 19% of cases.

Fussey told The Guardian: ‘I stand by our findings. I don’t know how they get to 70%.’

The Met said the cameras would be linked to a database of suspects uploaded using the latest intelligence. If the system detects someone who is not on the database, their information will be deleted in seconds. But if it generates an alert because the person is wanted, an officer will speak to them.

The Guardian (newspaper) understands the system is less effective at night-time and works best with good daylight. The Met admitted its system was less effective at scanning dense crowds.

Many protestors are now swearing masks, not for COVID protection but to legitimately disguise themselves. Also gaining popularity is the use of face paints to fool the Covid Cops.

Civil liberties groups immediately vowed to challenge the rollout in the courts, possibly before the Met can even deploy the system.

Silkie Carlo, the director of Big Brother Watch, called the move ‘an enormous expansion of the surveillance state and a serious threat to civil liberties in the UK’.

‘This is a breath-taking assault on our rights and we will challenge it, including by urgently considering the next steps in our on-going legal claim against the Met and the home secretary.’

Allan Hogarth, from Amnesty International UK, said: ‘The Met’s decision to introduce facial recognition technology poses a huge threat to human rights. ‘This technology puts many human rights at risk, including the rights to privacy, non-discrimination, freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly. This is no time to experiment with this powerful technology that is being used without adequate transparency, oversight and accountability.’

A spokesperson for the campaign group Liberty said: ‘This is a dangerous, oppressive and completely unjustified move by the Met. Facial recognition technology gives the state unprecedented power to track and monitor any one of us, destroying our privacy and our free expression.’

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