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AI weapons scanner backtracks on UK testing claims
Evolv Technology has been asked to change claims its technology has been tested by the government.
On 20 February the company put out a press release, including a claim that the NPSA was one of a number of testers who had "concluded that the Evolv Express solution was highly effective at detecting firearms and many other types of weapons". Prof Marion Oswald, who was on the government's Centre of Data Ethics and Innovation advisory board until last year, told BBC News it was worrying the technology was replacing "tried and tested" security options. In 2022, following a Freedom of Information request by the security-analysis company Internet Protocol Video Market (IPVM), BBC News revealed testing by a US facility had found Evolv's technology could not consistently detect knives and certain types of bombs.
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