Facial Recognition: Police Criticised for Using ‘Dystopian Tool’ at King’s Coronation

A camera being used during facial recognition trials at New Scotland Yard in London in January 2020. PA

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.”