US EditionUK's mass facial-recognition roll-out alarms rights groups
UK police used live facial recognition over 100 times in 2024, scanning 4.7 million faces to identify suspects, amid concerns about privacy, racial bias, and legal safeguards.
- The UK is deploying facial-recognition systems widely, making it the only European country to do so on a large scale.
- Metropolitan Police Chief Mark Rowley stated that the technology has resulted in over 1,000 arrests since 2024.
- Rebecca Vincent of the NGO Liberty criticized the lack of legislative safeguards for the technology, emphasizing risks to individual rights.
- Eleven organizations, including Human Rights Watch, urged the Metropolitan Police not to use facial recognition at large events due to potential racial biases in AI.
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