Civil liberties campaigners have criticised the police for plans to use facial recognition software to scan crowds attending the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday.
Emmanuelle Andrews, policy and campaigns manager at Liberty, said: “Facial recognition is a dystopian tool that violates our rights and threatens our liberty.”
“We all have the right to go about our lives without being surveilled and monitored, but this weekend, anyone in the vicinity of the King’s coronation is at risk of having their face scanned by this oppressive technology,” she added.
The Metropolitan Police is mounting one of its biggest ever security operations, with 29,000 police officers deployed over the coronation weekend, including officers from neighbouring Thames Valley Police….