mo4ch:>£200k on facial recognition and zero arrests: UK police slammed for wasting public money | Mo4ch News

The Metropolitan Police spent over £200,000 on facial recognition trials that yielded zero results, prompting questions about wasting public money (and violating the public’s privacy) to no benefit, it has been revealed.According to the results of a Freedom of Information request by the Independent, police trials carried out between August 2016 and July 2018 saw 110 people’s faces registered as potential ‘alerts,’ which resulted in six police deployments in which only two people were stopped – and then released.In its run-down of the facial recognition project, the Metropolitan Police said it was being trialed “in a range of environments including public events and crowded public spaces”, and that the public was informed of the use of the technology through posters and leaflets.Also on rt.com‘Authoritarian surveillance tool’: Police scan faces of London Xmas shoppers in controversial trialHowever, the Independent reported in December that none of the people they spoke to in a scanned …