Policing & Surveillance
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AI in policing and surveillance
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| ModerateA measured study or an official source | 1 | 4 |
| EmergingEarly, small, unreviewed or reported second-hand | 1 | 0 |
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In a test on 94 right-handed writers copying the same text, a statistical model told dominant-hand from non-dominant-hand writing with 92.98% accuracy, and 91.23% with a reduced feature set.
Hong Kong police say AI facial recognition on SmartView cameras will cut the time officers spend reviewing CCTV footage to find missing persons and suspects, freeing patrol officers for other investigative work.
A Tennessee woman, 50, was arrested at gunpoint and jailed almost six months on bank fraud charges that were dropped after bank records placed her in Tennessee. Her lawsuit alleges Fargo police relied on an AI facial recognition lead.
British Transport Police's six-month facial recognition trial in London stations cost £320,786 and scanned over half a million faces, yet produced one false match and no arrests.
Rutgers students, faculty and staff say they were never told the university spent $1.5 million on software that can track faces, license plates and people across campus.
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Hong Kong police will turn on AI-powered facial recognition across their SmartView surveillance camera network this month, aiming to track missing persons and suspects faster. Data the function generates, such as when and where a person appeared on camera, would be kept for up to 180 days.
The Star
A PLOS ONE study from April 2024 proposed a transfer learning system for crime prediction that fine-tunes a BiLSTM model and applies knowledge learned in one neighbourhood to another, aiming to…
Students, faculty and staff at Rutgers University say the school never told them it had spent $1.5 million on software that can track faces, license plates and people across campus.
NJ.com reports that Rutgers University has been putting up cameras paired with AI software that can recognize faces, read license plates and identify objects across its campus.
Between February and July 2026, British Transport Police trialled live facial recognition in London's busiest railway stations, scanning over half a million faces across 18 deployments at a cost of £320,786.
On 18 September 2026 The Guardian reported a $10m federal lawsuit filed by Angela Lipps, 50, of Tennessee, who says Fargo, North Dakota police used AI facial recognition to link her social media photo…
Sadiq Khan agreed to have his texts and emails searched as part of a High Court battle with Palantir after he blocked a £50m two-year deal for the US company to provide AI technology to automate…
As of the September 2026 publication, researchers reported a SnSe/SnO2 p-n heterojunction device operated as a single-sensor virtual electronic nose for volatile sulfur compounds associated with…
Researchers collected paired samples from 94 right-handed participants who each wrote the same standardized text with dominant and non-dominant hands, then scored 13 general and 19 individual…
Exclusive: NCA’s Alex Murray says he hopes new £115m police AI centre can limit unfairness found in tools
Exclusive: Alvi Choudhury claiming damages against Thames Valley police after biased technology confused him with man looking ‘10 years younger’
Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after AI software linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case
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