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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.
Sexual harassment on Britain’s railways is rising sharply, according to the British Transport Police, yet too many women still feel reporting is futile. LYNNE WALSH asks why the burden of safety all too often remains on women themselves
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
