Scotland Yard chief Sir Mark Rowley has told civil liberties and anti-racism groups only criminals have something to fear from the deployment of live facial recognition at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival.
Liberty, Big Brother Watch and the Runnymede Trust were among 11 organisations to describe LFR as “mass surveillance” that “treats all Carnival-goers as potential suspects” in a letter to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner on August 14.