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Changing of the guard: How tech is transforming policing
The use of facial recognition and other technologies in policing has unsettled privacy activists who see the new methods as an overreach – but it is also very effective when used judiciously and steered by humans, not ‘machines’
Advocates for the use of new, advanced technologies in policing often turn to the missing child scenario to sell the advantages. This was evident in a presentation from Motorola Solutions at its Critical Communications World (CCW) convention in Helsinki recently.
It showed how details such as a child’s age and what they were wearing at the time they disappeared could be used to search through available footage and, with knowledge of the time and location ...