Schlagwort: PERFORMANCE
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German Federal Police: Hits from facial recognition more than doubled
Since 2008, German police authorities have been using a facial recognition system to identify unknown persons. The facial database queried in this way has grown dramatically in the past year. The German Federal Police more than doubled the number of hits when searching for persons using facial recognition last year. In 2022, 2,853 unknown persons […]
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G20 in Hamburg: Data protection commissioner considers face recognition illegal
The Hamburg police have been researching facial analysis software for several years, which was then used for the first time after the G20 summit. The technology accesses the nationwide INPOL file for criminal offenders maintained by the Federal Criminal Police Office. The detection rates are meagre, but the system is still to be used permanently […]
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More face recognition at the German Federal Criminal Police
The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) is expanding its capabilities for biometric face recognition. For this purpose, the performance of the central face recognition system (GES), with which the BKA has been able to search its databases since 2008, is to be reviewed. The Office will then decide whether a new facial recognition system […]