UK Plans New Rules for Facial Recognition in Police and Immigration Use
The government would set legal rules, oversight and separate codes for police and private users as officials expand facial recognition for crime and immigration enforcement.
- Policing Minister Sarah Jones announced new legislation to regulate Live Facial Recognition cameras, establishing "parameters and principles" for police use of the surveillance technology.
- Jones stated police currently operate under a "patchwork" of "piecemeal legislation," creating inconsistent practices across forces that the new law aims to resolve.
- An independent watchdog will oversee LFR deployment, with new safeguards prohibiting anyone under 18 from watchlists and ensuring use is "intelligence-led and proportionate."
- By Christmas, officials plan to install permanent LFR cameras on Oxford Street, despite privacy group Big Brother Watch calling the technology an "alarming escalation" of mass surveillance.
- Independent testing confirmed the algorithm showed "no statistically significant demographic differential bias in operational performance," as the Home Office explores further immigration enforcement trials.
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