{"id":161664,"date":"2015-06-24T21:58:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T21:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=161664"},"modified":"2015-06-24T23:19:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T23:19:10","slug":"revealed-almost-3-million-faces-stored-on-met-police-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/revealed-almost-3-million-faces-stored-on-met-police-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Almost 3 Million Faces Stored On Met Police Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\" target=\"_blank\">RINF<\/a>) &#8211; As the result of\u00a0a Freedom of Information request it has emerged that the London Met Police are compiling a database of almost 3 million people. To put this into perspective, there are currently 8 million people living in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>The database, a bespoke system call the\u00a0&#8220;Facial\u00a0Recognition System (FRS)&#8221;\u00a0began gathering images in 2009.\u00a0The Met also acknowledges that they have never conducted a privacy impact\u00a0assessment on the system.<\/p>\n<p>It even stores pictures of those who have not been charged or found guilty of a crime, and they state:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;All custody images are kept indefinitely unless they are removed under the\u00a0Early Deletion process.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This follows on from the revelation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-31105678\" target=\"_blank\">in early 2015<\/a> that police had secretly built a massive national database that contains the faces of over 18 million people, without the approval of the\u00a0Home Office or independent watchdogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(RINF) &#8211; As the result of\u00a0a Freedom of Information request it has emerged that the London Met Police are compiling a database of almost 3 million people. To put this into perspective, there are currently 8 million people living in the capital. The database, a bespoke system call the\u00a0&#8220;Facial\u00a0Recognition System (FRS)&#8221;\u00a0began gathering images in 2009.\u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,1622],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-161664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}