An unexpected visitor to the Met police deployment of facial recognition today, Commissioner Cressida Dick. And we left her with nothing to say..! #StopFacialRecognition
Transcript:
Me: (..) 95% of the flags are misidentifications
CD: I’m sorry, we’re not going to agree on this
Me: No we won’t because these are the facts
CD: Nobody’s privacy was intruded on was it? (smiles 🥴)
Me: Absolutely it was
Me: (..) 95% of the flags are misidentifications
CD: I’m sorry, we’re not going to agree on this
Me: No we won’t because these are the facts
CD: Nobody’s privacy was intruded on was it? (smiles 🥴)
Me: Absolutely it was
CD: In the past 3 hours?
Me: No because it wasn’t working
CD: Exactly (walks off) Exactly, that’s my point (🤯)
Me: Well.. long may it not work then?
Me: No because it wasn’t working
CD: Exactly (walks off) Exactly, that’s my point (🤯)
Me: Well.. long may it not work then?
CD: We have to keep on refining it and testing it and make it work. I’m not going to get into the debate about 95% because you know full well that’s not the position we have. It’s a great bit of technology (..)
Me: It’s not something to have a position on, it’s fact
Me: It’s not something to have a position on, it’s fact
Me: (..) and we’ve done freedom of information requests.
CD: We got four violent criminals in Oxford Street (inaudible)
[FACT CHECK: She is referring to the last Met facial recognition use of 28 Jan - there were four arrests, not all violent - one was for a “traffic offence”.]
CD: We got four violent criminals in Oxford Street (inaudible)
[FACT CHECK: She is referring to the last Met facial recognition use of 28 Jan - there were four arrests, not all violent - one was for a “traffic offence”.]
[Their own account is here: news.met.police.uk/news/four-arre… We also witnessed two totally wrongful stops, both young black men.]
@JHurfurt: (off camera) What would you say to the young black boy who was stopped and misidentified?
CD: (walks off)
#StopFacialRecognition
@JHurfurt: (off camera) What would you say to the young black boy who was stopped and misidentified?
CD: (walks off)
#StopFacialRecognition
Background to her claim that privacy wasn’t breached is that for 3hrs of the facial recognition deployment today, the cameras weren’t working at all. Technicians worked on it from 12 to 3.30pm. The Commissioner suggested the abject failure somehow protected privacy. Breathtaking.
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