Camera being used during trials at Scotland Yard for the Met's facial recognition system.
(Picture: PA)A London borough where police deploy controversial live facial recognition is protesting to the Metropolitan Police to ban its public use.
Tech & Science Daily speaks with Newham councillor Areeq Chowdhury, who says there’s serious concerns over accuracy, racial profiling and poor regulation hitting public confidence over the Home Office-sanctioned mobile biometrics scanner vans.
There’s also long-standing criticism, while Met budgets are squeezed, that it’s policing on the cheap but Scotland Yard tells us officers deploy live facial recognition “based on a specific intelligence”, targeting “hard to find”, dangerous suspects.
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