Facial recognition trial at railway stations cost £320k and led to just one alert... which was wrong

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Facial recognition trial at railway stations cost £320k and led to just one alert... which was wrong

British Transport Police spent more than £320,000 on a six-month live facial recognition (LFR) trial across London's railway stations, scanning upwards of half a million faces yet failing to produce a single arrest. The pilot programme ran from February to July this year, deploying the surveillance technology 18 times at some of the capital's busiest transport hubs. Freedom of information documents obtained by Libe…