On 21 April, the UK High Court handed the Metropolitan Police a significant victory in
the battle over live facial recognition, dismissing a legal challenge
to the force’s policy and clearing the way for its continued use across
London. The case was brought by youth worker Shaun Thompson and Big
Brother Watch director Silkie Carlo, who argued that the Met’s rules for
deploying the technology were too broad, too unclear and too intrusive
to satisfy human-rights law. On Tuesday, the court rejected that claim, holding that the policy had enough clarity, foreseeability and safeguards to be lawful....<<<
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