Tag Archives: Metropolitan Police

Facial recognition technology has drawn a number of criticisms throughout 2018, from concerns over privacy to bias and the high number of false positives. Metropolitan Police are back at it again with the divisive software this week, attempting to spot criminals amongst shoppers in London. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) …

Despite its disastrous implementation throughout this year, the UK government and Metropolitan Police have set in motion plans to expand their efforts with real-time facial recognition in order to catch criminals. This has prompted concern from non-profit privacy advocate, Big Brother Watch, which is now crowdfunding in order to combat …

The UK police have managed to track down and arrest a suspect in the TalkTalk hacking case, which saw the financial information of customers stolen. The suspect is just 15 years old and was arrested in Northern Ireland, the police's own report also says that the boy's premises will be searched …