The police minister said that more facial recognition van is not intended to make the van “total monitoring society”.
Begum Diana Johnson Said that he believes that the public would withdraw the use of the live facial recognition cameras of the police, if they are used “very measured, after leaving in a proportional way” is done for suspects “who are looking for officers.
But Labor Peer Baronic Shami Chakraborty alleged that the technology “was completely developed outside the law”, and it is feared that the government’s plan is “yet another step towards the total monitoring society”.
Dame Diana denied Lady Chakraborty’s claim.
Asked whether the rollout was the “thin end of the veg”, the Home Office Minister told the BBC Breakfast: “With the biggest respect, it is not what it is.
“This is about giving equipment to our police officers so that they are able to keep us safe.
“And as a result of living facial identification LondonWhere it has been used, in the last 12 months, more than 580 arrests were made, and for those who wanted to rape. GBH (Complaint physical damage), for robbery, for domestic abuse, and also for sexual criminals who were disturbing their terms of being out in the community.
“So I think it is a very powerful tool for policing.
“And it is actually a device, it is not an automated decision manufacturer.
“So, the police officer will have to see what is being done on the screen and to decide what to do next, so there is a human participation, but it is a very powerful tool, which I think the public will actually support the use of people to go after those people, which will support the use of these serious crimes.”
Dame Diana said that she saw technology in action CroydonLondon, where the Metropolitan Police had placed a walchalist of wanted persons together, and the list was removed after exercise.
“So it was stitched very much,” said Dame Diana.
He said: “There are laws about how these human rights, similarities are to be done in the context of laws, data protection laws.
“I think one of the people, perhaps, is fine, needs to be included in a piece of law or a law, and this is something that we are going to consultal later in the year, how the technique of facial identification should be used and to make it transparent to the public to make it really to feel that the police is doing well.”
Dame Diana had earlier told Times Radio: “There is a lot of wrong information about what it really does and how it is used.”
He said: “And I know that in the past, there are concerns about prejudice, especially around some ethnic groups or gender or age.
“And the way it is now structured, the algorithms that are being used have been tested independently, so I am confident that the live facial recognition we are today is actually within the law and is not prejudice that has happened earlier.”
According to the home office, technology will be used to track high-loss criminals.
After the recent deployment by London’s Met Police and South Wales Police, Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Themes Valley and Hampshire will have access to 10 vans up to 10 vans equipped with cameras.
Tim Morgan, Chief Superintendent of South Wales Police, said that technology “had never misunderstood in South Wales, and there is no false alert for many years because technology and our understanding has developed”.
But “anxiety” about “this incredibly infiltration technique” to human rights campaigners, former director of Civil Liberty Advockey Group Liberty, Lady Chakraborty told the Today’s Today’s Today’s Today program.
Former Shadow Attorney General said: “Some people will say that this is another step towards the total monitoring society – the challenges of privacy, the challenges for the assembly and the freedom of the Sangh and the high probability of false matches in the context of some groups due to race and sexual discrimination.”
He said that “the public generally understands that the police powers are ruled by law, hence there is a public conversation, parliamentary debate and votes”, but warned that there was no law that especially covers live facial recognition to collect evidence.
“It is especially strange that it all has been completely developed out of the law,” he said.
Lady Chakraborty said that she plans to consult a potential new law further, but she warned that till date, “This is a bit of a wild west – whatever companies they see, the police shopping technology, the technique of shopping of the police, the police what they are looking and the seriousness is, what should be done adequately to the deployment, what should be done enough for deployment, and should be too marked.”