Has Hong Kong really got protestors under hi-tech surveillance?
In some ways it doesn’t matter whether Hong Kong is using cutting edge computing to crack down on protests: the very suspicion that it is doing so could be enough to stifle dissent.
Accuracy and Facial Recognition: What You Need To Know
One of the big debates about facial recognition is how accurate it is. It’s a debate we consciously didn’t explore in our BBC Click report. That’s because as soon as you start talking about accuracy you get into an important but very gnarly debate about statistics. However, given the amount of interest the story has…
The Police National Database (PND)
I spent a year following facial recognition’s rapid roll-out across the UK for BBC News. So-called “live”or “automated” systems are capable of instantly matching people who walk past a camera against a database of file photos. For the two police forces testing the technology, South Wales Police and the Met, that database is often drawn…
Facial Recognition: Here’s What You’re Really Worried About
A worrying new frontier in the Wild West of personal data exploitation
Facial Recognition and “ethnicity”
[This post was updated on 22nd May 2018 to include NtechLab’s response] Late on Friday I tweeted the following screenshot: When I came back after the weekend it had been retweeted 11,000 times, which is a new experience for me. The company concerned is the Russian firm Ntech. They’re very good at facial rec, by…
Geoff White 