TL;DR:
Privacy campaigners have lost a High Court challenge aimed at limiting the Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial recognition technology.
Youth worker Shaun Thompson, and Silkie Carlo, director of campaign group Big Brother Watch, brought the challenge over concerns that facial recognition could be used arbitrarily or in a discriminatory way.
In a major victory for the continued roll-out of the technology, the High Court rejected claims that the Met Police had broken human rights and privacy law by scanning faces in public. - BBC NEWS
Clip of Response to the ruling from Met Police:
Full Met Police response video (Twitter)
Big Brother Watch’s official response statement:
Big Brother Watch video response 1 (Twitter)
Big Brother Watch comments on Sky News (Twitter)
OFF TOPIC: On Journalistic Ethics
I really dislike it when organizations with large platforms post their videos on Twitter or Instagram, but not on YouTube. Sometimes there’s a delay of days or weeks before the video appears on YouTube, and sometimes they just never post it there. This is unacceptable IMHO. Especially from news organization. It could almost be interpreted as obfuscation. YouTube is the largest video platform in the world, it is irresponsible journalism to not publish your videos there when you published them elsewhere.