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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Met chief rejects calls to scrap live facial recognition at Notting Hill carnival

Live facial recognition technology mounted on top of a police van in Croydon, south London
Campaigners claim the police have been allowed to ‘self-regulate’ their use of live facial recognition technology. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA

The Metropolitan police commissioner has hit back at demands to drop the use of live facial recognition cameras at this weekend’s Notting Hill carnival over concerns of racial bias and an impending legal challenge.

Mark Rowley wrote in a letter that the instant face-matching technology would be used at Europe’s biggest street carnival “in a non-discriminatory way” using an algorithm that “does not perform in a way which exhibits bias”.

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