London’s Metropolitan Police deployed live facial recognition at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival. Point phone camera here‘Almost 100 people of interest’“Live facial recognition proved to be a successful part of the Notting Hill Carnival policing operation,” the police force wrote. Daily NewsletterThe Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy reported in 2022 that British police use of facial recognition technology violated both human rights laws and ethical norms. Although facial recognition was deployed in 2016 and 2017, widespread pushback led police to temporarily discontinue its use. “We acknowledge that when LFR was previously deployed at Notting Hill Carnival in 2016 and 2017, it did not build public confidence,” the commissioner said.

Source: The Times August 27, 2025 10:55 UTC