{"id":19781,"date":"2025-08-16T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T07:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/facial-recognition-cameras-too-racially-biased-to-use-at-notting-hill-carnival-say-campaigners\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T09:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T07:37:16","slug":"facial-recognition-cameras-too-racially-biased-to-use-at-notting-hill-carnival-say-campaigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/facial-recognition-cameras-too-racially-biased-to-use-at-notting-hill-carnival-say-campaigners\/","title":{"rendered":"Facial recognition cameras too racially biased to use at Notting Hill carnival, say campaigners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exclusive: Letter to the Met says technology \u2018unfairly targets community that carnival exists to celebrate\u2019<\/p>\n

The Met commissioner should scrap plans to deploy live facial recognition (LFR) at next weekend\u2019s Notting Hill carnival because the technology is riven with \u201cracial bias\u201d and subject to a legal challenge, 11 civil liberty and anti-racist groups have demanded.<\/p>\n

A letter sent to Mark Rowley warns that use of instant face-matching cameras at an event that celebrates the African-Caribbean community \u201cwill only exacerbate concerns about abuses of state power and racial discrimination within your force\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nExclusive: Letter to the Met says technology \u2018unfairly targets community that carnival exists to celebrate\u2019
\nThe Met commissioner should scrap plans to deploy live facial recognition (LFR) at next weekend\u2019s Notting Hill carnival because the technology is riven with \u201cracial bias\u201d and subject to a legal challenge, 11 civil liberty and anti-racist groups have demanded.
\nA letter sent to Mark Rowley warns that use of instant face-matching cameras at an event that celebrates the African-Caribbean community \u201cwill only exacerbate concerns about abuses of state power and racial discrimination within your force\u201d. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exclusive: Letter to the Met says technology \u2018unfairly targets community that carnival exists to celebrate\u2019 The Met commissioner should scrap plans to deploy live facial recognition (LFR) at next weekend\u2019s Notting Hill carnival because the technology is riven with \u201cracial bias\u201d and subject to a legal challenge, 11 civil liberty and anti-racist groups have demanded. …<\/p>\n

Facial recognition cameras too racially biased to use at Notting Hill carnival, say campaigners<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19781"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}