Campaigners Urge new Head of Metropolitan Police to Scrap Facial Recognition Technology

Campaigners Urge new Head of Metropolitan Police to Scrap Facial Recognition Technology
A camera being used during facial recognition trials at New Scotland Yard in London in January 2020. PA
Chris Summers
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On his first day in the job the new Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, has received a letter from 14 campaign groups urging him to stop using facial recognition technology in London.

Facial recognition software was first trialled in London in 2018, when Cressida Dick was commissioner, and has become increasingly popular as a law enforcement trial.
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Chris Summers is a UK-based journalist covering a wide range of national stories, with a particular interest in crime, policing and the law.
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