CIVIL liberties campaigners launched a landmark legal challenge today to the Met’s use of “Orwellian” facial recognition cameras.
Big Brother Watch and Green Party peer Jenny Jones have filed papers with the High Court seeking permission to judicially review the Met’s use of automatic facial recognition (AFR).
AFR has been deployed at the Notting Hill Carnival and last year’s Remembrance Sunday.
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
While claiming to target fraud, Labour’s snooping Bill strips benefit recipients of privacy rights and presumption of innocence, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE, warning that algorithms with up to 25 per cent error rates could wrongfully investigate and harass millions of vulnerable people



