<story><title>Police begin operational use of live facial recognition technology in London</title><url>http://news.met.police.uk/news/met-begins-operational-use-of-live-facial-recognition-lfr-technology-392451</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>borjamoya</author><text>There are a lot of things going on that I find interesting. But one that has caught my attention is the realization that surveillance is a profitable business.&lt;p&gt;Live facial recognition deployments cost a lot of money. Just in Cardiff alone the police spent 3 million pounds in this technology. And they have more than 25 police officers and with brand new iPads surveilling people in real time. (I was there.)&lt;p&gt;Imagine how much money they&amp;#x27;re going to spend in London now. So besides the obvious human rights related questions, the other not so obvious one is: Who is getting these contracts? Where is that money going?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>45ure</author><text>Who is getting these contracts? Where is that money going?&lt;p&gt;From the official PR, it is NEC Corporation.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nec.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;case&amp;#x2F;mps&amp;#x2F;index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nec.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;case&amp;#x2F;mps&amp;#x2F;index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Metropolitan Police Press Release.
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<story><title>Police begin operational use of live facial recognition technology in London</title><url>http://news.met.police.uk/news/met-begins-operational-use-of-live-facial-recognition-lfr-technology-392451</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>borjamoya</author><text>There are a lot of things going on that I find interesting. But one that has caught my attention is the realization that surveillance is a profitable business.&lt;p&gt;Live facial recognition deployments cost a lot of money. Just in Cardiff alone the police spent 3 million pounds in this technology. And they have more than 25 police officers and with brand new iPads surveilling people in real time. (I was there.)&lt;p&gt;Imagine how much money they&amp;#x27;re going to spend in London now. So besides the obvious human rights related questions, the other not so obvious one is: Who is getting these contracts? Where is that money going?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chmod775</author><text>&amp;gt; Just in Cardiff alone the police spent 3 million pounds in this technology.&lt;p&gt;This is and also isn&amp;#x27;t a lot of money. It&amp;#x27;s a small amount for an infrastructure project, but it&amp;#x27;s still 10 pounds per citizen.&lt;p&gt;You might manage to build a two lane car bridge for that same amount of money. Or a mile of road.</text></comment>