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More than 170 arrests in Met's Croydon facial recognition trial (www.bbc.com)
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Crime reduced by 10.5% during the pilot from October 2025 to March 2026, the Metropolitan Police says.

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[–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

i agree with all of that.

Genuine question though, is it propaganda?

I mean it's essentially:

"Police install draconian system to to target the crimes of the peasants, while continuing to ignore the rich, system working as intended"

Edit: wait no, actually i just saw the 'Address fears' section, they are clearly pretending this is the only problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Yeah, that was my point. There's a whole part about them "taking privacy concerns seriously, but... [A lot of reasons why it's actually good]".

    It doesn't adress the issues I've highlited, and downplays them, and the general vibe of the article is " look, it helps solve crime, this is actually good"

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