Metropolitan Police boss Sir Mark Rowley has said live facial recognition (LFR) technology will be used without bias amid concerns about it being deployed at this year's Notting Hill Carnival . In a letter to the commissioner, 11 groups had said the technology is a "mass surveillance tool that treats all carnival-goers as potential suspects" and has "no place at one of London's biggest cultural celebrations".

It also said that LFR technology was "less accurate for women and people of colour" in certain settings. Responding to the concerns, Sir Mark said the technology will help locate any dangerous individuals attending Notting Hill carnival over the August bank holiday weekend.

He wrote that when the technology was used at the carnival in 2016 and 2017, it "did not build public confid

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