• freedickpics@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

    I’m sure Londoners were consulted on this prior and given the chance to vote on whether they wanted these implemented /s

  • moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com
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    21 hours ago

    A freedom of information document obtained by Liberty Investigates and shared with the Guardian shows that equipment hire and police staffing for the 18 deployments across the trial cost £320,786 and led to only one alert on a watchlist, which turned out to be an incorrect identification, also known as a false positive.

    Aka a hallucination.

    It’s like minority report, except the precogs are all tripping balls