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[Varche]

Ring are looking at a service for lost dogs . Using our Ring cameras

How long before facial recognition comes in for us humans 

I have three of them and a fourth I cannot currently get to work…….

[Andy B]

George Orwell wasn't far off the mark .... 

[Kevin Wood]

I thought I read something about them doing facial recognition ages ago. Didn't pay much attention as there's as much chance of one of them appearing on my door as a french car on my driveway.

[Varche]

We used to have one on my dad’s back door facing the door. We ordered his weekly food from Morrisons. My dad used to tell the delivery man. “ Icant eat all that”. The delivery man pressed the button to “ speak to head office “(us) andhewouldthen accept it!

We find them brilliant for seeing anything untoward on our property while we are away. We disable them when we are there.

[Lizzie Zoom]

Certain police forces in the UK are already using facial recognition.  The retail sector are also using facial recognition CCTV systems to identify those that have been found to shoplift in the past.  These systems will now spread, and frankly, why not?

Only those that have something to hide, or have been found guilty of crime should fear this.  If we have nothing to hide, and are honest citizens, these systems can only assist us, the police and any service industries, in keeping us safe and free from crime.  As a side issue, but a very important one, is that as a retired senior retail manager I know how much shoplifting / criminality on retail premises cost us, the public.  Losses are transferred onto the prices we pay, and staff lose their jobs because of the costs of criminality that business has to cover, and cannot.

Welcome to the 21st century

[Doctor Gollum]

Until shop security is allowed to shoot offenders, no amount of technology is going to stop anything.

[YZ250]

Until shop security is allowed to shoot offenders, no amount of technology is going to stop anything.

The above is definitely the answer.      

We know facial recognition is seriously flawed and there are plenty of documented cases where a completely innocent person has been arrested based on facial recognition.     If it worked it would be a useful tool to catch criminals but, there have been too many ‘false positives’, which seriously pisses off the completely innocent party concerned. False arrest results in a lawsuit, so the taxpayer has to cough up again.

“Several high-profile cases have occurred where facial recognition technology (FRT) has wrongly identified and led to the arrest of innocent people, highlighting significant flaws in the technology's accuracy, particularly concerning racial bias. These incidents often involve law enforcement relying on surveillance, leading to "false positives" where the system incorrectly matches an innocent person's photo to a suspect.”