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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ted Hennessey

Notting Hill face-recognition technology will be used without bias – Met boss

Live facial recognition technology will be used at Notting Hill Carnival (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

Metropolitan Police boss Sir Mark Rowley has said live facial recognition (LFR) technology will be used without bias amid concerns about it being deployed at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival.

In a letter to the commissioner, 11 groups had said the technology is a “mass surveillance tool that treats all carnival-goers as potential suspects” and has “no place at one of London’s biggest cultural celebrations”.

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