Police: Biometrics

(asked on 21st February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of misidentification there have been in relation to facial recognition technology used by (a) the Metropolitan Police and (b) South Wales Police.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 9th July 2020

The Metropolitan Police Service and South Wales Police publish data about their use of live facial recognition on their websites.

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