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Police expand use of facial recognition apps
5+ hour, 13+ min ago (804+ words) Published on 05 May 2026 By Mark Wilding for Liberty Investigates and Matt Dathan for The Times Facial recognition apps that allow police officers to carry out on-the-spot identity checks with their phones are being quietly adopted by UK forces before a…...
UK police forces lobbied to use biased facial recognition technology
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (508+ words) Published on 10 December 2025 By Mark Wilding for Liberty Investigates and Daniel Boffey for the Guardian Police forces successfully lobbied to use a facial recognition system known to be biased against women, young people, and members of ethnic minority groups, after…...
Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away
2+ mon, 21+ hour ago (853+ words) Published on 04 March 2026 By Mark Wilding for Liberty Investigates and Robert Booth for the Guardian Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after nationally-deployed face scanning software confused him with another person of…...