Tag: Metropolitan Police
Tech Digest daily roundup: Police seize iSpoof phone scam website
Image: iSpoof website The Met police have smashed a global online fraud shop selling tools that allowed criminals to carry out phone scams on hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting victims. Detectives disabled the iSpoof website as part of the biggest anti-fraud operation ever mounted in the UK. Criminals using software purchased…
MPs question legality of facial recognition technology
Authorities should cease trials of facial recognition technology until a legal framework for them is established, MPs have said. The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee said the current lack of legislation calls into question the legal basis of the trials. In a report on the Government’s approach to biometrics and forensics, the MPs…
Police’s facial recognition technology only accurate three quarters of the time
A police force’s use of facial recognition technology requires “considerable investment” to deliver consistent results, a study has concluded. Crashing computer systems and poor quality images are among the challenges South Wales Police officers have faced since rolling out the technology. The force first deployed automated facial recognition (AFR) at the 2017 Champions League final and…
Flickr used in Metropolitan Police's Operation Withern London riots investigation
The Metropolitan Police are harnessing the power of social media in order to bring rioters from the past few day's escalating violence to justice. As part of Operation Withern, the Met are posting stills from CCTV footage to a…
Metropolitan Police release London crime maps online
The website allows you to zoom in and out of a map, just like with Google Maps, but the key difference here is the colour coded sectors that represent differing rates of crime between areas.
