March 05, 2020 | Organisational Information
Reference: F-2020-00188
Response
Request 1
I wish to request information about the use of facial recognition technology in your police force. Whether your police force uses the services of Clearview AI, the US company that maintains a database of more than 3 billion images to check against (https://clearview.ai/). If so, please provide how long your police force has been using the service, for which purposes and how much money the contract is for.
Request 2
Whether your police force uses the services of Palantir Technologies, or any of its subsidiaries. If so, please provide how long your police force has been using the service, for which purposes and how much money the contract is for.
Request 3
Which other facial recognition services your police force uses in order to identify potential criminal suspects. Please list these by the amount of money the contracts are for, and how long they have been in use.