{"id":393542,"date":"2019-01-20T19:26:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T18:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-spends-222000-on-useless-facial-recognition-trials\/"},"modified":"2019-01-20T19:26:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T18:26:58","slug":"presstv-uk-spends-222000-on-useless-facial-recognition-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-spends-222000-on-useless-facial-recognition-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK spends \u00a3222,000 on useless facial recognition trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The UK\u2019s largest police force has spent over \u00a3200,000 on controversial facial recognition trials that have proved to be useless, a report says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Only two people were stopped in six deployments by the Metropolitan Police, <em>The Independent<\/em> reported, adding the two were released afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the National Police Chiefs\u2019 Council plans to draw up national guidance on how the technology should be employed, a freedom of information request by <em>The Independent<\/em> showed.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners at Big Brother Watch, which has launched a legal challenge over the use of technology, described it as a \u201cshambles,\u201d saying the force was \u201cwasting public money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Director Silkie Carlo said, \u201cI think members of the public will be disappointed to see the police have spent over \u00a3200,000 in this shambles experiment playing with facial recognition and citizens\u2019 liberties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe figures show, yet again, that this authoritarian surveillance is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/20\/586291\/UK-POLICE-FORCE-FACIAL-RECOGNITION\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s largest police force has spent over \u00a3200,000 on controversial facial recognition trials that have proved to be useless, a report says. Only two people were stopped in six deployments by the Metropolitan Police, The Independent reported, adding the two were released afterwards. Nonetheless, the National Police Chiefs\u2019 Council plans to draw up national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393542","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=393542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}