Face-recognition tech will be used without bias at festival, Met boss says

Face-recognition tech will be used without bias at festival, Met boss says

The live facial recognition technology deployed at this year's Notting Hill Carnival has "significantly improved" from previous years and won't be used in a discriminatory way, Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley said.

Only criminals will fear facial recognition at Carnival, says Met boss

Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley tells 11 civil liberties and anti-racism groups: ‘Why wouldn't we use it?’

Met defends facial recognition plan for Notting Hill Carnival

Sir Mark Rowley says the technology can locate, disrupt and deter people from committing crimes.

Face-recognition Tech Will Be Used Without Bias At Festival, Met Boss Says - Great Yorkshire Radio

Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley said the live facial recognition (LFR) technology will help locate any dangerous individuals attending the carnival over the August bank holiday weekend. He was responding to concerns raised by 11 groups, who in a letter to the commissioner claimed the technology was a “mass surveillance tool that treats all carnival-goers as potential suspects” and has “no place at one of London’s biggest cultural celebrations”.…