article_snippet: And Bernard Hogan Howe called on families and businesses to install cameras at eye level – to exploit advances in facial recognition technology.
article_snippet: Recommending greater use of CCTV to gather more images of people's faces
article_snippet: often innocent people's faces
article_snippet: Renate Samson of Big Brother Watch pointed out that a House of Commons committee had on Saturday released a report on the problems with facial recognition.
article_snippet: We've got a strategy to encourage people to move people cameras down to eye level. '
article_snippet: Facial recognition software has got better, and We can now apply Facial recognition software to images of burglaries, and then compare images of burglaries with images we take when we arrest people. '
article_snippet: Taking the tops of their heads is not that helpful for facial recognition which relies on the eyes and the configuration of the area around the nose and the mouth.
article_snippet: So We're trying to get people to, ideally, add a camera at face level. '
article_snippet: I'm not sure it will make anyone feel any safer and the use of facial recognition technology remains largely untested and unproven.'