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Speaking about live facial recognition, which police in London
started using in January, London police chief Cressida Dick said
that she welcomed the government's 2019 manifesto pledge to
create a legal framework for the police use of new technology
like AI, biometrics and DNA.
"The best way to ensure that the police use new and emerging
tech in a way that has the country's support is for the
government to bring in an enabling legislative framework that is
debated through Parliament, consulted on in public and which
will outline the boundaries for how the police should or should
not use tech," Dick said.
"Give us the law and we'll work within it," she added.
Dick rejected evidence that facial recognition algorithms are
racially discriminatory in that their accuracy rates vary
depending on the skin color of the person they detect.
"We know there are some cheap algorithms that do have ethnic
bias but, as I've said, ours doesn't and currently the only bias
in it is that it shows it is slightly harder to identify a
wanted woman than a wanted man," she said.
The London police's facial recognition technology is provided by
NEC, a Japanese company.
(Reporting by Elizabeth Howcroft; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
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