London police chief ‘completely comfortable’ using facial recognition with 98 percent false positive rate

The head of London's Metropolitan Police force has defended the organization's ongoing trials of automated facial recognition systems, despite legal challenges and criticisms that the technology is "almost entirely inaccurate."

According to a report from The Register, UK Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick said on Wednesday that she did not expect the technology to lead to "lots of arrests," but argued that the public "expect[s]" law enforcement to test such cutting-edge systems.

The Met's use of automated facial recognition technology (AFR) is controversial. The London force is one of several in the UK trialling the technology, which is deployed at...

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