Analysis: London police used facial recognition 117 times in 2024 to August, up from 32 times total from 2020 to 2023; ~770,966 people were scanned since 2020
📈This year the Met Police has deployed live facial recognition 4 times more than the last 3 years COMBINED The eye-watering expansion of this Orwellian tech “poses one of the most severe threats to privacy in a generation” - @silkiecarlo Read on @FT ⤵️ https://www.ft.com/...
Every police force in the country is using #FacialRecognition that enables them to ID and track anyone of us The FT reports today that the Met Police's use of the creepy and dangerous tech in London has surged dramatically in 2024 https://www.ft.com/...
'The use of [live] facial recognition technology by the UK's largest police force has surged this year, with the number of deployments more than three times higher than in the prior four years combined' https://www.ft.com/...