Police don’t want you to know about this facial recognition trial
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This week our director Silkie Carlo walked into the High Court to challenge the Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial recognition cameras. This legal challenge is a landmark step towards protecting the public against intrusive monitoring. Silkie is joined by Shaun Thompson who was wrongly stopped by this Orwellian technology.
This is the first legal action in Europe on behalf of innocent members of the public who were wrongly accused of being criminals following facial recognition alerts. This week, the Home Secretary announced an unprecedented expansion of facial recognition.
This confirms the fear that we've had for a long time - that this technology is part of a mass surveillance infrastructure and it is now surging across the country.
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