{"id":651822,"date":"2026-06-22T07:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651822\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T07:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:51:09","slug":"residents-react-to-ai-facial-recognition-in-peterborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651822\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents react to AI facial recognition in Peterborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force also acknowledged people&#8217;s concerns with regard to privacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson said: &#8220;Data collected via LFR is handled according to data protection laws and regulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Images of people who do not match anyone on the watchlist are immediately deleted and cannot be recovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All CCTV footage from mobile deployments is deleted within 31 days unless it is required for an investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tucker added: &#8220;So before we deployed this, we spoke to a number of different community groups, tried to allay any fears around that. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During its first use on 19 May, police scanned 34,000 faces in a six-hour operation on Bridge Street and Long Causeway, leading to the arrest of two men wanted for failing to appear in court &#8211; one accused of theft from a person and the other of shoplifting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Peterborough? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The force also acknowledged people&#8217;s concerns with regard to privacy. A spokesperson said: &#8220;Data collected via LFR is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-651822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}