"I was misidentified by a live facial recognition system while coming home from a community patrol in Croydon. Police officers told me I was a wanted man and demanded my fingerprints even though I'd done nothing wrong. What happened to me was shocking and unfair."
"The possibility of being subjected to a digital identity check by police without our consent almost anywhere, at any time, is a serious infringement on our civil liberties that is transforming London. When used as a mass surveillance tool, live facial recognition reverses the presumption of innocence and destroys any notion of privacy in our capit"
A High Court hearing will examine limits on Metropolitan Police use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology on Tuesday and Wednesday. Shaun Thompson says he was misidentified by an LFR camera in Croydon and officers demanded his fingerprints despite no wrongdoing, and Big Brother Watch supports the case. Lawyers and Silkie Carlo will argue that the Met's policy is too permissive to comply with Article 8 privacy protections because permitting LFR in 'crime hotspots' and 'access routes' is overly broad and could encompass most of London. Carlo also contends pop-up LFR deployments threaten Articles 10 and 11 by chilling protest and enabling mass surveillance that undermines the presumption of innocence.
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