Police force defends facial recognition tech after 2,000 fans were wrongly identified

Over 2,000 positive matches have been made using our 'identify' facial recognition technology with over 450 arrests.

So glad to hear that we can justify shitting all over the privacy of an entire nation so police can get a less than 1-in-4 shot at catching people who they have already positively identified. Stunning police work. At least they're getting some dangerous people off the st-

Successful convictions so far include six years in prison for robbery and four-and-a-half years imprisonment for burglary.

Oh, those are the prime examples? Jesus, not even a murder or a rape conviction? Fuck me.

There is money to be made. Of course they'll defend it.

Weird that the article doesn't actually state what happened to these folks, it just says they were wrongly identified but not arrested. Does this mean they spent the game detained in a paddy wagon or what?

'wrongly'