Civil liberties and anti-racism groups have called on Met Police to abandon plans to deploy Live Facial Recognition (LFR) at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival, warning of “racial bias.”
What they are actually afraid of is justice finally coming for black criminals who thought they had got away with it.
In a letter to Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, 11 organisations, including Liberty, Big Brother Watch, and the Runnymede Trust, described LFR as “mass surveillance” that “treats all Carnival-goers as potential suspects.”
It's a large gathering of black people - where else would you ecpect the police to look for wanted black criminals and black runaway children?
The letter states: "There is no clear legal basis for your force's use of LFR. No law mentions facial recognition technology and Parliament has never considered or scrutinised its use,” according to the BBC."Notting Hill Carnival is an event that specifically celebrates the British African Caribbean community, yet the [Metropolitan Police] is choosing to use a technology with a well-documented history of inaccurate outcomes and racial bias."
Are they really saying that they all look alike even to technology? If someone is stopped after an indication and isn't the ewanted person, they can always show ID, can't they?
Police will deploy around 7,000 officers each day during the August Bank Holiday weekend event, focusing heavily on public safety, particularly preventing knife crime and violence against women and girls.
So it Liberty, Big Brother Watch and the Runnymede Trust in favour of violence against women and girls then? Sure seems like it!
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