Privacy campaigners criticised an "alarming escalation" of police use of live facial recognition tech.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced a new watchdog and laws will be brought in to monitor how police and private ...

A Home Office-commissioned study into the views of minority groups with low trust in the police found that while they were ...

The government is introducing new safeguards for police use of facial recognition, but how the changes will affect retailers ...

The Government has vowed to change the law to bring in tougher protections to make sure facial recognition technology is used ...

Members of the public walking through Bath city centre could have their faces scanned in real time by marked police ...

Government to tighten facial recognition rules for police amid human rights fears - It comes just weeks after the ...

Deployments of surveillance vans over five months result in nine false alerts and led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offenders ...

Avon and Somerset Police will be introducing Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology in the coming weeks as part of its ongoing work to protect the public, prevent crime and safeguard ...

UK policing minister Sarah Jones has committed to tighter restrictions on the use of live facial recognition (LFR) on the streets of Britain, saying that the technology — which scans and identifies ...

Use of technology will respect privacy rights and require authorisation by inspector or above, with data kept for up to 180 ...