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UK MPs examine Met police use of facial recognition
May 26, 2023, 7:36 p.m. | Masha Borak
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The facial recognition system used by the UK’s largest police force is prone to bias against Black individuals but only when used at lower face-match thresholds, testing by the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has shown.
"We find that, if the system is run at low and easy thresholds, the system starts showing a bias against Black males and females combined," said Tony Mansfield, principal research scientist at NPL. However, Mansfield added that he believes that the police did not …
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