Met Police nab 45 people with facial recognition, deployments coming to Lincolnshire

Police in the UK continue to double down on facial recognition use in line with plans to transform their work with the help of technology laid out in 2023. A recent deployment calls into question whether it is being used as intended.

The country’s largest police force, the Metropolitan Police hailed live facial recognition as a “vital tool” for policing last week, after deploying the technology in the London town of Croydon. As part of a months-long operation, local police …

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