GeoSpy (FOI ref: 151A/25)
Request
- Have you engaged the services of the AI geolocation company GeoSpy, or any other AI geolocation company?
- If so, when did you first engage their services and is the engagement ongoing?
- If the software has been used, what purposes has it been used for?
- If the software has been used, are identified locations always independently verified by a human to ensure they match?
- Has anyone been charged with a crime based wholly or in part on evidence gleaned from GeoSpy or other AI geolocation software? If so, how many people, and what crimes were they charged with?
Response
West Midlands Police will neither confirm nor deny that we hold any of the requested information in relation to questions 1- 4 as the following exemptions apply:
S24(2) - National Security
S31(3) - Law Enforcement
In respect of question 5 no recorded information is held. GeoSpy AI, or similar products, are geolocation tools that can use artificial intelligence to analyse images and determine where they were taken. Any results generated by the use of such tools would be for that purpose alone, which in and of itself would be useful intelligence, but would not constitute evidence sufficient to result in a criminal charge being brought against any individual.
These exemptions and explanatory notes are shown here:
Freedom of information | College of Policing
In line with the above, I am required to complete a Prejudice Test/Public Interest Test (PIT) on disclosure. Please find this PIT attached (151A_PIT_01).
No inference can be taken from this refusal that the information you have requested does or does not exist.