Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on people in London, say judges

The UK High Court has ruled that the Metropolitan Police's use of Live Facial Recognition (LFR) is lawful, dismissing a privacy challenge brought by Big Brother Watch on behalf of Shaun Thompson despite his misidentification; the report outlines police claims of LFR effectiveness and arrests, government plans to expand deployments, and ongoing concerns about higher false positive rates for Black people and civil‑liberties objections.