A coalition of 16 campaign groups, including Big Brother Watch, Amnesty International, and End Violence Against Women, has called on the Information Commissioner to investigate
The Met insisted the 2,337 site ‘hits’ from its computers did not mean it was accessed to carry out a facial recognition search only The Metropolitan Police Service is facing fresh scrutiny over its use of a controversial facial recognition search tool after leading human rights and privacy groups demanded an investigation by the
The Met said that the online “hits” do not mean that the site was used by officers to carry out searches, and claimed that officers may have visited PimEyes “for a number of reasons”, including press reports about the software. In their letter to Information Commissioner John Edwards, the campaign groups called for an investigation, saying the ability to access the PimEyes site from Metropolitan Police Service computers “represents a serious failure of oversight, and is likely to be unlawful under data protection law”.The campaigners said there were “reasonable” grounds for assuming that at least some of the visits to the PimEyes site had been to carry out searches of members of the public.
It says the system has allowed thousands of women to tackle revenge porn by locating photographs of them on the internet and then having them taken down. The Met is one of the first forces in Britain to make regular use of authorised facial recognition technology as a crimefighting tool.
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