The London metropolitan police has paid to members of the public 50 lbs (59 USD) to participate in testing facial recognition to live in the centre of London, for research purposes, and for equality, in the course of on-line transactions using the technology and in the course of which individuals wanted for drug trafficking and violence have been arrested.
The participants were also asked to sign a consent form indicating that they accept that the images of their face are stored by the National Physical Laboratory.
The people have been recruited through job ads, spotted by MyLondon.news. The advertisements published by the agency is specialized in the recruitment of staff for events, on the platform of employment Mandy, describe the recruitment as being three hours on two days, on July 13 and 14 : (the test was also held on 6 and 7 July).
"You take pictures, videos and selfies of the face with a variety of camera systems to provide data for the analysis of the performance of the systems, facial recognition, and differences in performance due to the demographics.
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The result of this test is to " help the Metropolitan Police Service to fulfil his / her obligations in relation to equality in the public sector in relation to the use of facial recognition ". The Metropolitan Police Service is currently subject to special measures following a series of scandals related to the misogyny and racism.
According to police, a 15-600 people have seen their biometric data processed for this event and generated four alerts to match, all qualified for " real "alerts.
The recent update on the use of facial recognition by the police indicates that " once the test is completed, the data of the volunteers and the video-surveillance footage will be retained by the Met and for a longer period than that for which we would maintain normally. This retention period is currently set at three years and will then be subject to revision".
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