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In 2015, Leicestershire Police scanned the faces of 90,000 individuals at a music festival in the UK and checked these images against a database of people suspected of crimes across Europe. This was the first known deployment of Live Facial Recognition (LFR) at an outdoor public event in the UK. In...

Fraser Sampson delivers a speech to the National ANPR Conference 2021, hosted by the NPCC.

Melissa Cawthra is a programme and research officer at the African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum (APCOF). In the information age, data is valuable currency and South African public officials are sitting on a gold mine. Most of us are familiar with the Sassa/CPS scandal by now: corruption, fraud and mismanagement within the government’s social security agency leading to the leaking of the personal information of 17 million grant beneficiaries by the company it contracted to make the paymen...