{"id":18923,"date":"2025-05-24T16:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T14:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/valuable-tool-or-cause-for-alarm-facial-id-quietly-becoming-part-of-polices-arsenal\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T16:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T14:37:14","slug":"valuable-tool-or-cause-for-alarm-facial-id-quietly-becoming-part-of-polices-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/valuable-tool-or-cause-for-alarm-facial-id-quietly-becoming-part-of-polices-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Valuable tool or cause for alarm? Facial ID quietly becoming part of police\u2019s arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics envision a dystopian future of live facial recognition cameras in England and Wales, but advocates point to the outcomes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/24\/police-live-facial-recognition-cameras-england-and-wales\">Live facial recognition may become \u2018commonplace\u2019 in England and Wales, say police<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The future is coming at Croydon fast. It might not look like Britain\u2019s cutting edge but North End, a pedestrianised high street lined with the usual mix of pawn shops, fast-food outlets and branded clothing stores, is expected to be one of two roads to host the UK\u2019s first fixed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/facial-recognition\">facial recognition<\/a> cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Digital photographs of passersby will be silently taken and processed to extract the measurements of facial features, known as biometric data. They will be immediately compared by artificial intelligence to images on a watchlist. Matches will trigger alerts. Alerts can lead to arrests.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/24\/valuable-tool-or-cause-alarm-facial-id-quietly-becoming-part-police-arsenal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a61c434a821a04d812db5b9bdbc562327a2a6e0b\/322_0_2884_2307\/master\/2884.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=34ce1d1cc39471e410103fd14b44207d\" title=\"Valuable tool or cause for alarm? Facial ID quietly becoming part of police\u2019s arsenal\" \/>Critics envision a dystopian future of live facial recognition cameras in England and Wales, but advocates point to the outcomes<br \/>\nLive facial recognition may become \u2018commonplace\u2019 in England and Wales, say police<br \/>\nThe future is coming at Croydon fast. It might not look like Britain\u2019s cutting edge but North End, a pedestrianised high street lined with the usual mix of pawn shops, fast-food outlets and branded clothing stores, is expected to be one of two roads to host the UK\u2019s first fixed facial recognition cameras.<br \/>\nDigital photographs of passersby will be silently taken and processed to extract the measurements of facial features, known as biometric data. They will be immediately compared by artificial intelligence to images on a watchlist. Matches will trigger alerts. Alerts can lead to arrests. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics envision a dystopian future of live facial recognition cameras in England and Wales, but advocates point to the outcomes Live facial recognition may become \u2018commonplace\u2019 in England and Wales, say police The future is coming at Croydon fast. It might not look like Britain\u2019s cutting edge but North End, a pedestrianised high street lined &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/valuable-tool-or-cause-for-alarm-facial-id-quietly-becoming-part-of-polices-arsenal\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Valuable tool or cause for alarm? Facial ID quietly becoming part of police\u2019s arsenal<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18923"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}