The use of live FRT by British police makes the UK an outlier among democratic states

By Professor Karen Yeung, Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics Birmingham Law School and School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham

At the end of January, the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee published a letter to the Home Secretary, warning against the use of live facial recognition technology (LFR) by police in England and Wales, rightly warning that it lacks a clear legal foundation, yet is being deployed and governed in troubling ways.

The use …

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