Facial recognition technology could be used by all UK police forces in more situations under plan announced by the Home Office. It hopes a 10-week public consultation will also pave the way for the ...

The bus driver suffered a punctured lung and a tear to the heart after being stabbed in the back while driving his route in east London. Peek saw a friend arguing with the driver back in June 2023. He ...

A British police force's use of facial recognition technology has been ruled unlawful in a landmark judgment at the Court of Appeal. The technology, which is used to allow officers to compare the ...

Police facial recognition systems have been shown to do poorly when analysing non-white faces Black and minority ethnic people could be falsely identified and face questioning because police have ...

The UK government will consult on police facial recognition before further expanding its use across England, says policing minister Sarah Jones. Speaking during the Labour party annual conference, ...

Sainsbury’s will soon introduce facial recognition across its supermarkets, in a move privacy campaigners told Metro is ‘chilling’. The divisive technology will be trialled for eight weeks at the ...

The consumer champion is concerned that face recognition, which is often promoted as one of the most secure ways to unlock a phone, could inadvertently allow scammers to bypass the screen lock on ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On the last day of January, few of the shoppers and office workers who hurried through Romford town centre in ...

Black and minority ethnic people could be falsely identified and face questioning because police have failed to test how well their systems deal with non-white faces, say campaigners. At least three ...