It would be strange if we accepted routine deployment of facial recognition technology without any limit or special justification. And yet that appears to be where British police forces are taking us.
The reason, she soon learned, was that police in Sri Lanka – where her parents had come from – had released a photograph wrongly identifying her as one of the terrorists who had killed more than 250 people at three churches and three hotels in Colombo two days earlier. Specifically, she had been misidentified by facial recognition software employed by an enterprising assistant superintendent.
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