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- 1UK facial recognition trial scans 500,000 people, makes no arrests●500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
A live facial recognition trial at London railway stations scanned around 500,000 people and led to no arrests, while producing at least one false positive match. Civil liberties campaigners say the figures undermine the case for the technology, and the report is drawing attention to privacy concerns and the accuracy of such systems in public spaces.
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Reports suggest India's public distribution system could use facial recognition to identify beneficiaries when fingerprint authentication fails. Prabhat Khabar reports that face-based verification is being considered as a new alternative for ration distribution, aimed at helping people whose biometric fingerprints do not register, particularly elderly workers and labourers whose prints wear out over time.