Brickbat: Never Forget a Face

In England, London's Metropolitan Police is setting up its first permanent facial recognition cameras in Croydon, a suburb in South London, starting this summer to help fight crime. These cameras will be placed on buildings and lamp posts along North End and London Road. Privacy rights groups oppose the move. But the Labour Party government hopes to expand the use of facial recognition and is seeking bids to supply police departments with the cameras.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

I hope in the interest of equity that the software will be excluding faces with certain features.

[Don't look at me! (No longer muted!)]

Like masks?

[Vernon Depner]

You beat me to it.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Bad teeth?

[Chumby]

TdA gang tattoos?

[mad.casual]

Black Mirror: "A gorilla showing remorse for masturbating on a raped female should be encouraged while a white human male should know better and be punished." - Your preferred AI.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Clap...clap...clap...

[Chumby]

The cameras are part of a progressive two-tiered justice system that Scotland Yard is using to investigate white male Brits who might say something unkind about immigrant rape gangs.

[mad.casual]

Maybe my comment above was more appropriate here.

[Bobster0]

So, ski masks will be the new "cool" look?

[JFree]

So this is the red line? There are probably close to a million CCTV cameras in London. More surveillance than China. Along with hundreds of vans driving around with facial recognition cameras. But stick a couple of those on a street light and 1984 is here.