The civil liberties organization Big Brother Watch released a report in 2018 documenting that the United Kingdom’s Metropolitan Police Department had piloted facial recognition systems that wrongly matched innocent members of the public with criminal suspects more than 98 percent of the time. The South Wales Police did slightly better with 91 percent false matches. In the process, 2,451 individuals unknowingly had their faces scanned by the department and stored for twelve months.[13] The sooner I could run experiments, the sooner I could gather evidence to help organizations like Big Brother
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