UK High Court Backs Facial Recognition Rollout

UK High Court Backs Facial Recognition Rollout Authored by Kit Knightly via OffGuardian.org, Yesterday evening, the UK’s High Court ruled in favour of the Metropolitan Police in a legal challenge pertaining to the use of Live Facial Recognition Technology (LFR) across London’s transport network. The case had been brought by Silkie Carlo of Big Brother Watch and Shaun Thompson, a youth worker who was previously misidentified by the technology, “over concerns it could be used arbi...

By Tyler Durden