Police: Biometrics

(asked on 4th September 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what mechanisms are in place to ensure that automated facial recognition software in use by police forces is independently tested for racial accuracy biases.


Answered by
Nick Hurd Portrait
Nick Hurd
This question was answered on 12th September 2017

It is an operational decision for police forces as to what testing is carried out of facial recognition software that they use.

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