Scottish Police admit to use of facial recognition software

John Leonard
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Police maintain a database of pics of those in custody and use software to automatically match them with CCTV footage

Police Scotland has admitted using controversial face recognition technology to identify individuals from CCTV cameras and other sources, as well as maintaining a database of photographs as source ...

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