London cops bring live facial recognition to West End

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) will deploy live facial recognition (LFR) cameras in London's West End and Soho by year-end, following a Croydon pilot that resulted in 173 arrests and one false alert. Civil liberties group Big Brother Watch criticized the expansion, citing lack of parliamentary regulation and racial bias in the technology, referencing a case where a man was wrongly arrested due to a misidentification. The MPS highlighted budget constraints and rejected a Palantir contract due to controversy.