Hackney Greens’ co-leader has hit out at the Metropolitan Police’s ‘disproportionate surveillance’ – as data shows facial recognition technology has been deployed mostly in boroughs with a higher-than-average Black population.
City Hall’s Green group has circulated figures that showed live facial recognition (LFR) was used 180 times last year, with over half of these instances in places where the Black population is larger than the city’s average.
