HMICS says facial recognition should be required to keep banned individuals out of football matches, after a Rangers v Celtic tie the Scottish FA called a near miss.

British Transport Police has expanded its live facial recognition trial into London Underground stations, extending a six-month evaluation that began at selected transport hubs in the capital. The force uses […]

Kenya’s Interior Ministry plans to connect surveillance cameras with the country’s national identity records so that police can match faces captured on camera against official ID photos, Interior Cabinet Secretary […]

The Metropolitan Police plans to expand static live facial recognition across central London, with cameras due in the West End and Soho by the end of 2026 and a wider […]

Western Australia Police will trial real-time facial recognition cameras that scan the faces of people in crowds and check them against a watchlist, becoming the first police force in the […]

A legal challenge to police use of live facial recognition in the UK is headed to the High Court, with civil liberties advocates positioning the case as a key test […]

The UK government has set out plans to expand the use of facial recognition technology across police forces in England and Wales, positioning biometrics more firmly at the centre of […]

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) confirmed the deployment of its new Live Facial Recognition (LFR) vans in Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens area marking the first operational use of the technology in this […]

The Scottish Biometrics Commissioner, Dr. Brian Plastow, has praised Police Scotland for implementing a new policy that has led to a “significant reduction” in the capture of biometric data from […]

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has begun deploying Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology, utilizing two Home Office-supplied vans to scan for individuals on watchlists in areas with high footfall and at […]