HUMAN rights groups, including Black Lives Matter UK, are demanding the new Metropolitan Police chief end his force’s use of “inaccurate and highly invasive” facial recognition technology. 

In a letter to Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, sent on his first day on the job today, several major organisations have called on him to ditch the tech, which they claim has an 87 per cent failure rate. 

The force began trialling the use of live facial recognition technology in the capital in 2016, before rolling out the software more widely earlier this year.