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Content type: Long Read
3rd March 2020
The UKâs Metropolitan Police have began formally deploying Live Facial Recognition technology across London, claiming that it will only be used to identify serious criminals on âbespoke âwatch listsââ and on âsmall, targetedâ areas.Â
Yet, at the same time, the UKâs largest police force is also listed as a collaborator in a UK government-funded research programme explicitly intended to "develop unconstrained face recognition technology", aimed âat making face recognition ubiquitous by 2020". âŠ
Content type: Examples
1st December 2017
In 2015 Hong Kong's Face of Litter campaign used DNA samples taken from street litter and collected from volunteers to create facial images that were then posted on billboards across the city. The campaign, conceived by PR firm Ogilvy & Mather and organised by online magazine Ecozine and the Nature Conservancy, was intended to give a face to anonymous Hong Kong litterbugs and raise awareness of the extent of littering in the city and encourage people to change their behaviour. ForâŠ