9 d. ago Notting Hill Carnival sees drop in serious violence despite Met Police making 528 arrests

Facial recognition software helped police make 61 arrests, including a suspect who allegedly stabbed someone five times with a machete

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9 d. ago Moment Notting Hill Carnival revellers brawl as police arrest 400 but hail facial recognition for reducing violence at festival... with just two stabbings

Footage filmed inside a Tube station shows a man in a brightly coloured carnival costume scuffling with a group of other revellers.

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1 week ago Sequins, feathers... and a groundbreaking arrest using facial recognition cameras: The Daily Mail sees police deploy slick new technology at Notting Hill Carnival

Even the harshest critics of the Metropolitan Police admit the force has its work cut out with the Notting Hill Carnival.

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2 w. ago Met Police's use of live facial recognition is 'unlawful', equality watchdog warns

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has claimed rules and safeguards fall short of standards and could have a 'chilling effect' on individuals' rights when deployed at protests.

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2 w. ago Met Police facial recognition 'unlawful', says watchdog ahead of Notting Hill Carnival

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has been granted permission to intervene in legal action over the issue.

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2 w. ago I now think police use of live facial recognition will make us safer – here’s why you should think so too | Brian Paddick

I have been a Met officer and a critic. I still worry about the culture there. But as the Notting Hill carnival approaches, I am persuaded this is the best optionBrian Paddick is a non-executive adviser for the Metropolitan policeMet police’s facial recognition plans fall foul of European law, says watchdogI was a Metropolitan police officer for more than 30 years and policed Notting Hill carnival for many of them, from the anti-police violence of the 1970s as a constable, to being a chief inspector bronze commander in the 1990s.In the 2000s, when the rightwing press succeeded in removing “an openly gay police commander who was soft on drugs” (I advocated alternatives to arresting people for small amounts of cannabis) as the cop in charge of Brixton, “the capital of Black Britain”, local people signed a 5,000-signature petition and held a rally at Brixton town hall demanding my reinstatement. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Metropolitan Police’s policy over live facial recognition ‘unlawful’ – watchdog

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has been granted permission to intervene in legal action over the issue.

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2 w. ago Met police’s facial recognition plans fall foul of European law, says watchdog

Use of cameras at Notting Hill carnival could have ‘chilling effect’ on people’s rights, says equality regulatorScotland Yard’s plan to widen the use of live facial recognition technology is unlawful because it is incompatible with European laws, the equalities regulator has claimed.As the UK’s biggest force prepares to use instant face-matching cameras at this weekend’s Notting Hill carnival, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said its use was intrusive and could have a “chilling effect” on individuals’ rights. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Met Police chief says only criminals will fear deployment of facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival

Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley tells 11 civil liberties and anti-racism groups: ‘Why wouldn't we use it?’

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2 w. ago Met Police urged to scrap facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival over 'racial bias' fears

Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology captures live footage and compares faces against a database of known offenders

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2 w. ago Voices: Facial recognition cameras mistook me for a wanted man – I worry who’ll be next

Shaun Thompson was wrongly identified as a criminal by new police cameras. Here, he explains why, if this technology is rolled out across the country, or is used at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival, as planned, such injustices will disproportionately affect Black people

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3 w. ago PETER HITCHENS: The march of facial recognition cameras is so sinister. Police say they get results... but they send a shiver down my spine and they should yours too

Hurrying into London's Paddington Station the other evening, I was amazed to see a large white van with odd-shaped devices and aerials on its roof'.

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3 w. ago Rollout of live facial recognition vans treats us all as a ‘nation of suspects’, say critics

Critics issue warning over nationwide expansion of ‘intrusive’ technology which ‘turns every passerby into a walking barcode’

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3 w. ago Government rolls out expansion of police facial recognition vans

A new legal framework will be drawn up to support the expanded use of the technology, the Government has said

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3 w. ago Police deploying vans to catch criminals using facial recognition

The vehicles scan faces in real time to look for wanted criminals and those subject to court orders

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3 w. ago Live facial recognition to expand across the country amid Government overhaul of neighbourhood policing

The technology will be deployed to catch 'high-harm' offenders with new rules to support its use and ensure 'safeguards and oversight', the Home Office said.

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3 w. ago Facial recognition vans to be deployed across Britain to help police target serious criminals

The Home Office has announced 10 new Live Facial Recognition vans will be distributed across seven forces, allowing officers to use cutting-edge technology to target and locate wanted criminals

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3 w. ago Live facial recognition to be widened in neighbourhood policing drive

A new legal framework will be drawn up to support the expanded use of the technology, the Government said.

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4 w. ago 'Met Police facial recognition tech mistook me for wanted man'

'Met Police facial recognition tech mistook me for wanted man'  BBC

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