Service: Met police deploy live facial recognition technology

Responsible organisation: Metropolitan Police (Local Government)

Beginning operational use of facial recognition CCTV, despite a scathing assessment of its effectiveness from the expert hired to scrutinise its trials. Thousands of shoppers in east London were scanned by van-mounted cameras pointed at the doors of the Stratford Centre retail complex, in what a senior police officer at the scene described as an “intelligence-led” deployment.

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Source Open Innovation Regione Lombardia
Start/end date 2020 -
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