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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Matt Watts

Met Police wins high court challenge over use of live facial recognition technology

The Metropolitan Police has defeated a High Court challenge into the use of Live Facial Recognition across London.

Youth worker Shaun Thompson and Silkie Carlo, from campaign group Big Brother Watch, brought the claim over concerns that facial recognition could be used arbitrarily or in a discriminatory way.

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