-
Reference:
2018/1492
-
Question by:
Siân Berry
-
Meeting date:
21 June 2018
The report Face Off, published by Big Brother Watch in May 2018, revealed that the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) use of automated facial recognition resulted in over 98% of matches wrongly identifying innocent members of the public. There have also been 102 false-positive 'matches', mainly from people who attended the Notting Hill Carnival. I am therefore pleased that the MPS has announced that it will not be trialling the automated facial recognition system again this year at Notting Hill Carnival. What were the reasons behind this decision?