London Metropolitan Police's Facial Recognition Technology Reportedly Misidentified Shaun Thompson as Suspect Leading to Arrest
February 1, 2024
Sometime in February 2024, Shaun Thompson is reported to have walked by one of the London Metropolitan Police's facial recognition technology vans near London Bridge. He was almost immediately arrested because the technology is reported to have misidentified him as a suspect in an unrelated and unspecified crime.
- Alleged deployer
- metropolitan-police-service
- Alleged developer
- metropolitan-police-service
- Alleged harmed parties
- shaun-thompson, general-public
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