In this report, researchers develop “minimum ethical and legal standards” for the governance of facial recognition technology and test them on three British police deployments – with all three failing.

🚨NEWS: after the Met spent massive resources in central London on Saturday using live facial recognition cameras all day, scanning *36,420* people’s faces, guess what the outcome was?0 correct matches1 wrong match, requiring a member of the public to prove their innocence 🥴 https://t.co/gKDtT0Jjp5— Silkie Carlo (@silkiecarlo) July 18, 2022

Mayor’s decision to give police access to more data described as ‘gargantuan increase of surveillance in London’

Police should be able to mon­itor pas­sen­gers who spend hours on the rail­way net­work in case they are pick­pock­ets or sex offend­ers — or are in need of help — a chief con­stable has said. Lucy D’Orsi, the head of the Brit­ish Trans­port Police,...

(1/7) Home Office is now introducing facial recognition smart watches to monitor foreign nationals who have completed their sentences and released back into the community. Lucy Audibert (@privacyint) and I clearly explain as to why this is problematic and must be challenged. pic.twitter.com/1h5KrwLa38— Monish Bhatia (@DrMonishBhatia) August 5, 2022

Home Office and MoJ plans will require migrants convicted of crimes to take photos up to five times a day

Analysis reveals how the UK's biggest police force is contributing to racist narratives about the criminality of Black people.

A collection of data and tools exploring UK state violence

Call for more transparency on how such tools are used in public services as 20 councils stop using computer algorithms. The Home Office recently stopped using an algorithm to help decide visa applications after allegations that it contained “entrenched racism”.

The ethnicity of people stopped in their cars by @metpoliceuk will be recorded from today, in a new six month pilot by the force - aim is to better understand proportionality. It follows a number of controversial stops by officers including of MP @DawnButlerBrent.— Darshna Soni (@darshnasoni) January 18, 2021

Discusses harms of racial policing practices, potential effects of data driven technologies & opportunities for activism

How list is compiled also to be reviewed amid claims it blights life chances and is discriminatory

Ed Bridges, 37, from Cardiff, brought a legal challenge after having his image captured twice.