United Kingdom · Question · Written question
HL HL1336
Police: Biometrics
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4 February 2020
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17 February 2020 · Answer
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17 February 2020
Summary
To ask Her Majesty's Government, during the recent Metropolitan Police trial of automated facial recognition technology, how many individuals on the system’s watchlist were correctly identified; how many alerts resulted in (1) an arrest, and (2) a subsequ
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4 February 2020
Written question
To ask Her Majesty's Government, during the recent Metropolitan Police trial of automated facial recognition technology, how many individuals on the system’s watchlist were correctly identified; how many alerts resulted in (1) an arrest, and (2) a subsequ
Source: Lords
17 February 2020
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The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) are operationally independent of government.They have disclosed the following information:CostsThe MPS have records of Live Facial Recognition software and associated hardware at a current total cost of £240,000.The M...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-02-04/HL1336
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1176216
- uk · wq-1176216 · source updated 17 February 2020