Met chief warns police risk being outwitted by AI crime
Sir Mark Rowley says criminals exploiting AI move faster than forces bound by slow procurement and calls for fewer, larger police forces.
Tag: Facial Recognition
14 articles tagged Facial Recognition
China overhauls surveillance network with on-device AI cameras
Hikvision and Huawei cameras now run LLMs locally, letting police search footage with text prompts and predict behaviour in real time, per an FT analysis.
UK police facial recognition is outpacing oversight rules
Live facial recognition is being deployed by UK police and retailers faster than regulators can keep up, with the Met scanning over 1.7 million faces this year.
UK biometrics watchdogs warn police AI oversight is years behind rollout
Met scans 1.7M faces in 2026 (+87%) as commissioners say facial recognition law is at least three years away and Police.AI rollout outpaces regulation.
Police AI Chief Admits Crime-Fighting Tech Will Have Bias
National AI lead Alex Murray acknowledges bias in policing AI tools including facial recognition, as £115m national centre aims to minimise risks.
UK Police Forces Turn to Palantir AI to Crack Complex Investigations
Bedfordshire police used AI tools to translate 100,000 messages and analyse 1.4TB of evidence in a major fraud case, as government pledges £115m for police AI rollout.
AI Can Predict Future Salary From a Photo, Researchers Claim
Academics used AI to extract personality traits from LinkedIn photos of 96,000 MBA graduates and found they predicted salary outcomes — but warn the approach is discriminatory.