Notting Hill Carnival: Biometrics

(asked on 13th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the operational justification for the decision made for the Metropolitan Police to use automated facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival in 2016 and 2017.


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Nick Hurd Portrait
Nick Hurd
This question was answered on 15th March 2018

A decision to deploy a facial recognition system is an operational one for the police.

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