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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...
With at least six million CCTV cameras in the UK - one for every 11 people - the UK now ranks alongside China in terms of its surveillance capacity.
Police facial recognition deployment resulted in three arrests, despite sustained calls from Parliament and civil society to limit the technology’s use until a specific legal framework for biometrics is in place
The government has largely rejected the findings and recommendations of a House of Lords inquiry into police tech, which called for an overhaul of how police deploy artificial intelligence and algorithmic technologies.
Existing rules in England and Wales are fragmented and unclear.