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!
4 comments:
"There is no clear legal basis for your force's use of LFR."
There is no clear legal basis for the force not to use of LFR. Their point?
" If someone is stopped after an indication and isn't the wanted person, they can always show ID, can't they?"
Do you want to live in a society where the police can force you to show your identity papers whenever they feel like it? We used to have such a society, but people got pissed off with it and it was changed. If you want to change it back, go ahead and make the case. Address all the downsides as well as the benefits.
- Spiro Ozer
How jolly dare the police arrest black criminals.
Jaded
What use is facial recognition, not only at events like Notting Hill, if face masks are worn? One of the first things the numpties in government (this lot and the last lot) should have done to deal with protests, shoplifting, and phone thefts, was to ban face coverings. As they haven't, the cynical side of me suggests that, "Who was that masked person involved in crime" at this year's cultural event, will be mentioned several times.
Penseivat
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