Policing & Surveillance
2 gains0 Traces4 problems
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AI in policing and surveillance
A Trace is one record with both a gain and a problem, so it counts on both sides: 2 records show a gain and 4 show a problem. 6 context records are in the record list but not counted, because they report no measured gain or problem.
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| HighStrong study design, backed by at least two independent sources | 0 | 0 |
| 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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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. The reaction described is anger over what they call creepy surveillance technology.
NJ.com
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 to a bank fraud…
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 intelligence analysis for…
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