Live facial recognition cameras are subjecting innocent people to “lengthy, humiliating & aggressive police stops”, Madeleine Stone of Big Brother Watch told the Guardian.
This includes young black school children and a black anti-knife crime activist, Shaun Thompson. Shaun, part of the Streetfathers group, was wrongly stopped by facial recognition cameras in London one evening after a shift.
He is now taking legal action against police use of this technology with support from Big Brother Watch.
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