{"id":12923,"date":"2023-05-09T15:04:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T15:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1396258"},"modified":"2023-05-09T15:04:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T15:04:57","slug":"kings-coronation-controversial-ai-tech-deployed-alongside-record-setting-5g-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=12923","title":{"rendered":"King\u2019s coronation: Controversial AI tech deployed alongside record-setting 5G network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week Saturday, over 20 million viewers from across the UK tuned in to watch the coronation of King Charles III, making it the country\u2019s most-watched TV event of the year. Another approximately two million took to the streets of London, under the close watch of AI. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the lead-up to the coronation, the Metropolitan Police confirmed that it would deploy live facial recognition technology<\/span> \u2014 which scans faces and matches them against a list of people wanted for alleged crimes \u2014<\/span> across central London <\/span>to identify potentially dangerous individuals mingling in the crowds.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

During the event, the software<\/a> scanned footage from central London\u2019s almost 1 million CCTV cameras and analysed it using an AI algorithm to identify faces that might match those on the Met\u2019s watchlist. The sheer scale of the deployment made it the largest-ever use of live facial recognition technology in public spaces in British history. <\/span><\/p>\n

Live facial recognition technology has been a topic of controversy in the UK in recent years due to concerns about privacy, civil liberties, and the potential for the technology to be misused.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the main issues is the lack of clear legal regulation around its use. <\/span>\u201cLive facial recognition is not referenced in a single UK law, has never been debated in parliament, and is one of the most privacy-intrusive technologies ever used in British policing,\u201d said <\/span>Madeleine Stone, legal and policy officer at British <\/span>civil liberties campaign group<\/span> Big Brother Watch.<\/span><\/p>\n

Critics argue that the use of live facial recognition could lead to false positives, where innocent people are wrongly identified as suspects. There are also concerns that the technology may disproportionately impact certain groups, such as people of colour or those with disabilities, due to the potential for <\/span>bias<\/span><\/a> in the algorithms used to analyse the images. <\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/i><\/a>The UK police resumed the use of live facial recognition last month. Credit: HM Government<\/figcaption>