Nice idea re: Police trying out national database with 750,000 mugshots, MPs told

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Bob Frankston [bob37-2 () bobf frankston com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:53 AM
To: David Farber; 'ip'
Subject: RE: [IP] Police trying out national database with 750,000 mugshots, MPs told

How do you know that the door knob you're using isn't a fingerprint reader
with a camera accumulating bits of data to be correlated? Do any European or
UK privacy laws limit this type of data collection. Is there a "lawful
purposes" escape hatch?

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From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 08:33
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Subject: [IP] Police trying out national database with 750,000 mugshots, MPs
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From: Brian Randell [Brian.Randell () ncl ac uk]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:40 AM
To: David Farber
Subject: Police trying out national database with 750,000 mugshots, MPs told

Dave:

From today's (UK) Guardian newspaper, for IP if you wish.

> Police trying out national database with 750,000 mugshots, MPs told
>
> . Offenders' faces tracked through CCTV images
> . Scheme part of 'hi-tech revolution on the beat'
>
> The police are developing the first national
> database of mugshots so that they can use face
> recognition technology to match CCTV images with
> details of offenders, MPs were told yesterday.
>
> The system is being developed in a pilot scheme
> involving the Lancashire, West Yorkshire and
> Merseyside police which has generated a database
> of more than 750,000 facial images over the past
> 18 months. Peter Neyroud, the chief executive of
> the National Police Improvement Agency (NPIA),
> told MPs yesterday that the development of a
> national facial images database is just one
> element of a technological revolution in
> neighbourhood beat policing.
>
> Neyroud, former chief constable of Thames
> Valley, hopes that by the time of the 2012
> London Olympics beat officers will be equipped
> with advanced "second-generation" hand-held
> computers which can take and transmit
> fingerprints, download mugshots and details from
> the police national computer, and access images
> from local CCTV cameras.
>
> His hi-tech vision of the future of policing was
> given during the final evidence session of a
> year-long inquiry by the Commons home affairs
> select committee into the "surveillance society".
. . .
> The police are also developing "behavourial
> matching" software to pick out odd behaviour in
> a crowd using CCTV picures. "That might be
> particularly useful in counter-terrorism or
> tackling street crime," he said. "The
> proliferation of CCTV cameras in the UK - with
> about one for every 14 people - means that we
> are now accustomed to our movements being
> monitored in this way and for most people this
> is not an issue."

<snip>

Full story at:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/mar/19/ukcrime.humanrights

cheers

Brian

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