The use of live FRT (Facial Recognition Technology) by British police makes the UK an outlier among democratic statesThe use of live FRT (Facial Recognition Technology) by British police makes the UK an outlier among democratic states
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"Even more worrying is the lack of effective oversight or transparency in police-created FRT watchlists. Although the London MPS claims that only those wanted for ‘serious crimes’ have their image uploaded to these watchlists, this is at odds with their reports that these systems were used to apprehend individuals wanted for drug possession offences and traffic violations. Nor is there effective and transparent governance over police officer intervention following an automated ‘match’ alert. We have already seen individuals reprimanded for camera avoidance behaviour during live FRT trials, even though they are merely exercising their legal right to privacy.
Civil rights campaigners have successfully mounted a legal challenge against the use of FRT by police; famously, in the case of Bridges, leading to the judgement that the South Wales Police’s deployment failed to comply with anti-discrimination laws. Yet the Court also indicated that use of live FRT by the police was not unlawful per se, enabling the South Wales Police and the London Metropolitan Police to continue using the technology, now deploying it on a permanent basis."