{"id":81832,"date":"2018-08-18T18:43:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T01:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/london-police-chief-completely-comfortable-using-facial-recognition-with-98-percent-error-rate"},"modified":"2018-08-18T18:43:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T01:43:44","slug":"london-police-chief-completely-comfortable-using-facial-recognition-with-98-percent-error-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/london-police-chief-completely-comfortable-using-facial-recognition-with-98-percent-error-rate","title":{"rendered":"London police chief \u2018completely comfortable\u2019 using facial recognition with 98 percent error rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/london-police-chief-completely-comfortable-using-facial-recognition-with-98-percent-error-rate.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While facial recognition performs well in controlled environments (like photos taken at borders), they struggle to identify faces in the wild. According to data released under the UK\u2019s Freedom of Information laws, the Metropolitan\u2019s AFR system has a 98 percent false positive rate \u2014 meaning that 98 percent of the \u201cmatches\u201d it makes are of innocent people.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The head of London\u2019s Metropolitan Police force has defended the organization\u2019s ongoing trials of automated facial recognition systems, despite legal challenges and criticisms that the technology is \u201calmost entirely inaccurate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/07\/04\/met_police_commish_im_not_expecting_facial_recognition_tech_to_result_in_lots_of_arrests\/\">report from <em>The Register<\/em><\/a>, UK Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick said on Wednesday that she did not expect the technology to lead to \u201clots of arrests,\u201d but argued that the public \u201cexpect[s]\u201d law enforcement to test such cutting-edge systems.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/7\/5\/17535814\/uk-face-recognition-police-london-accuracy-completely-comfortable\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/7\/5\/17535814\/uk-face-recogniti...omfortable<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While facial recognition performs well in controlled environments (like photos taken at borders), they struggle to identify faces in the wild. According to data released under the UK\u2019s Freedom of Information laws, the Metropolitan\u2019s AFR system has a 98 percent false positive rate \u2014 meaning that 98 percent of the \u201cmatches\u201d it makes are of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1493,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}