If Big Brother is watching you, who is watching Big Brother? A coalition of the willing has come together to challenge the Metropolitan police over plans to use facial recognition technology to prevent disorder at this weekend’s Notting Hill Carnival. Civil liberties and anti-racist groups have written an open letter to the Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley raising ‘significant concern’ over both the concept of mass surveillance at the festival and claims that the technology is racially biased against people in ethnic minorities.

We should not dismiss these allegations lightly. Nevertheless, there is an obvious and compelling policing purpose to using every tool available to prevent the anarchic brutality which has come to signify this event more so than the celebration of British Afro-Car

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