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Police Commissioner Cressida Dick made the comments on Wednesday at a London Assembly meeting aimed at addressing concerns about the trial and roll out of automated facial recognition (AFR) technology in parts of the city by her force.
Insisting that people living in the city would approve of the controversial measures, Dick said:
"If there's a technology that we can use lawfully - which we can, this is one - and is available, which we are trialling with massive safeguards... [and there is] the notion that that technology might be used in limited circumstances to identify against a small list of wanted offenders for serious violence, [then] I think the public would expect us to be thinking about how we can use that technology, seeing if it's effective or efficient for us. And that's exactly what we're doing," according to a report of the meeting by The Register.
So far this year, the technology has been used four times and plans are in place to use the technology a further five times by year's end.
Comment: It seems the snowflakes just aren't happy unless they're morally outraged about something completely trivial.