#lfr — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lfr, aggregated by home.social.
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#BTP expands Live #FacialRecognition ( #LFR ) trial into #LondonUnderground stations
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UK launched largest facial recognition programme in British history: 27 police forces, £26m, LFR in knife crime hotspots. Algorithm has documented racial bias, scans everyone, 50 vans deployed. Mainstream coverage: almost none.
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-uks-largest-facial-recognition
#FacialRecognition #LFR #Surveillance #Police #KnifeCrime #Privacy #AI #UKPolitics
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The #BBC report includes no data that casts doubt on the #Met's findings despite prior research contradicting claims presented exist. It’s a press release, not news.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cddpzglzrv7o
The BBC simply presents the police's statistics: 173 arrests, 10.5% crime reduction, 21% VAWG reduction, 1 false alert, without any independent audit data, methodological critique, bias statistics, or counter-studies.
For instance, a Cambridge study found no deterrence effect, the NPL bias report showing 100–248× higher false positive rates for non-white faces, or documented wrongful arrests.
[…] Overall Conclusions
Taken together, the studies suggest that:
• Live Facial Recognition can identify wanted individuals with high accuracy when used under appropriate conditions.
• Mistaken identifications appear to be very rare in operational deployments.
• The technology identifies some demographic groups more successfully than others, which raises questions about fairness that require continued monitoring.
• Crime deterrence effects were not observed in this study.
• Because #LFR scans very large numbers of people to identify a small number of suspects, decisions about its use should carefully consider issues of proportionality, transparency and oversight.
Essex police pause facial recognition camera use after study finds racial bias
[…] Academics discover black people ‘significantly more likely’ to be identified when compared with other ethnic groups
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„Heiter weiter“, damit wir nicht erst in 134 Jahren Gleichberechtigung in Deutschland haben. Das ist die Prognose, wenn es wie bisher weitergeht. Knapp hundert geladene Gäste und ein Mann #männerquote feierten den 75. Geburtstag des #landesfrauenrat Schleswig-Holstein.
Zum 75. Geburtstag des #lfr ist die Bilanz nüchtern: die Durchschnittsfrau arbeitet heute 60 Stunde/Woche inkl. unbezahlter Care-Arbeit.
#keinegewaltanfrauen #frauenquote #petzekiel #landesfrauenratsh
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Live facial recognition (#LFR) was not used to police the #UniteTheKingdom rally in #London. No "intelligence basis" for it, #MetropolitanPolice Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told #LondonPolicingBoard.
Rowley was challenged on the difference in approach at #NottingHillCarnival, when LFR was used.Rowley reckoned that #Carnival was more dangerous than a #fascist #racist rally. 😡
Same, it seems, with the #DefendOurJuries protest. 😡
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The UK government is moving forward with a wider rollout of live facial recognition (LFR) technology across seven police forces, prompting debate over privacy, legal safeguards, and ethical deployment.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/uk-expands-live-facial-recognition
#technews #facialrecognition #ukpol #yvettecooper #lfr #police
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#UKGovernment expands #police use of #FacialRecognition vans
by Kate Whannel, August 13, 2025
"More live facial recognition (#LFR) vans will be rolled out across seven police forces in England to locate suspects for crimes including sexual offences, violent assaults and homicides, the Home Office has announced.
"The forces will get access to 10 new vans equipped with cameras, which scan the faces of people walking past and check them against a list of wanted people.
"The government says the technology has been used in London to make 580 arrests in 12 months, including 52 registered sex offenders who breached their conditions.
"However, campaign group #BigBrotherWatch said the 'significant expansion of the #SurveillanceState' was 'alarming'.
"Live facial recognition was first used in #England and #Wales in 2017 during the Uefa Champions League final football match in Cardiff."Since then its use has largely been confined to #SouthWales, #London and #Essex including at a Beyoncé concert to scan for paedophiles and terrorists [like elderly Palestine Action activists!]
"The government is now funding 10 vans equipped with LFR to be shared between seven forces, approximately doubling the number of vehicles.
"The seven forces are Greater #Manchester, #WestYorkshire, #Bedfordshire, #Surrey, #Sussex, #ThamesValley and #Hampshire.
"The technology identifies people by taking measurements of facial features including the distance between the eyes and the length of the jawline and then comparing the data to to an existing watchlist.
"Each van will be staffed with a trained officer who checks the matches identified by the technology.
"Simultaneously, the government is holding a consultation on what safeguards are needed to "ensure transparency and public confidence", ahead of drawing up a new legal framework.
"Big Brother Watch is bringing a legal challenge against the #MetPolice's use of the technology, alongside #ShaunThompson, who was wrongly identified by an LFR camera.
#Rebecca Vincent, interim director of Big Brother Watch, said: 'Police have interpreted the absence of any legislative basis authorising the use of this intrusive technology as carte blanche to continue to roll it out unfettered, despite the fact that a crucial judicial review on the matter is pending.
" ;The #HomeOffice must scrap its plans to roll out further live facial recognition capacity until robust legislative safeguards are established.'
"Labour peer Baroness Chakrabarti told the BBC the technology was 'incredibly intrusive' and 'some would say this is yet another move towards a total #surveillance society'."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4wy21dwkwoArchived version:
https://archive.ph/I2g32#Orwellian #UKPol #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #ThoughtCrime #PalestineAction #Censorship #Authoritarianism
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UK's first permanent facial recognition #cameras installed • The Register
The #MetropolitanPolice has confirmed its first permanent installation of live facial recognition ( #LFR ) cameras is coming this summer and the lucky location will be the South #London suburb of #Croydon
#facialrecognition #biometrics #privacyhttps://www.theregister.com/2025/03/27/uk_facial_recognition/
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Spotted at Oxford Circus #london yesterday evening. Naturally, the link to the #metropolitianpolice site on #facialrecognition doesn't work for me.
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One to watch - the Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee is launching a short investigation into the use of Live Facial Recognition (#LFR) by police, a follow up to their inquiry 'New technologies and the application of the law' (2022). It seems to comprise just one session tomorrow afternoon
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La SGDQ se termine 😢. Au moment où j'écris 2 239 704 $ collectés pour Médecins sans frontière. Faut dire que le système d'incentives est tellement bien rodé maintenant.
La SGDQ, c'est un peu mon Roland-Garros à moi, pendant une semaine tu rentres du boulot, tu lances Twitch, t'as toujours une run en cours à regarder. Mais à la différence de Roland-Garros, chaque run est une finale en soi.
Et un grand merci au French Restream pour le cast et l'ambiançage en français.
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"Liberty of Russia" Legion Легион «Свобода России»
2023-05-22 https://t.me/legionoffreedom/782邊境地區的居民！
呆在家裡，不要反抗也不要害怕：我們不是你的敵人。 與普京的殭屍不同，我們不會接觸平民，也不會將他們用於我們自己的目的。 自由近了！
對於所有關注我們的人：很快所有的細節，保持聯繫。「L」
為了俄羅斯！ 為了自由！———— ⁂ ————
“#俄罗斯自由军团”宣布#别尔哥罗德 州成功脱离#俄罗斯联邦 后将成为#别尔哥罗德人民共和国（#Belgorod People's Republic）。
2023-05-24 https://www.163.com/dy/article/I5CQ3TL70552ZK17.html
#自由俄罗斯军团 #自由俄罗斯 #俄罗斯 #legionoffreedom #FreedomofRussia #LFR -
Just been reading this article about #LFR deployments in the #UK. There are about 100 pages, and it details how accurate it is, where it's been used and some other stuff.
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Biometric-Britain.pdf
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Looking for recommendations for androgynous/queer-friendly business #fashion, #clothing, #tailoring and styling services. My post-COVID closet contains almost no real dress clothing for work, weddings, etc. I prefer masc-leaning looks, but I'm not opposed to traditionally fem fits or accessories.
I dunno, it's hard to describe what I want. That's why I need you, Mastodon! Thanks in advance!