Metropolitan Police
London police partner with Facebook to train AI on how to block terrorist livestreams
The idea is to improve the platform’s capabilities to detect and instantly flag streamed shootings.
Facebook wants to equip police with body cams in exchange for the footage
Facebook will provide free body cameras to the UK’s Metropolitan Police force in exchange for the video footage.
Canadian police begin Facebook Live homicide press conference with cat filter switched on
Police and politicians will have to learn how to use technology better if they’re going to rely on US-based companies to put out official information.
UK lawmakers call for police to stop using face recognition tech
The news comes as the Home Secretary called for increased testing of face recognition technology to fight crime.
UK police are still investigating journalists over the Edward Snowden case from 2013
UK’s National Union of Journalists criticized it by saying that reporting about unlawful surveillance was in the public interest.
UK Home Secretary pushes crime facial recognition tech that only worked 8 out of 42 times
The technology has been called illegal by civil rights groups.
UK Police facial recognition technology only works 4% of the time
Police even scored a 100% misidentification rate in two separate instances.
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, arrested by London police after Ecuador removes immunity
Just moments before his arrest, Ecuador President Lenin Moreno announced Ecuador had withdrawn Assange’s diplomatic immunity.