'Highly intrusive' facial recognition trials should be suspended, urge MPs

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MPs question legal basis for facial recognition trials conducted by police forces

The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has urged the government to suspend what it has described as "highly intrusive" trials on facial recognition technology.  In a report publis...

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