UK publishes tender for police facial recognition

The United Kingdom Home Office has issued a tender for a new national facial recognition software for policing amid increasing use of the technology by the country’s law enforcement agencies.

According to the tender, the contractor will need to provide an application programming interface (API) for facial matching and associated services. The product will be used within the Strategic Facial Matching (SFM) Project to deliver infrastructure, software and data migration for the new national facial matching service.

The tender …

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