Dear John,

Last Friday, the UK’s largest police force announced it will start rolling out dangerous and oppressive facial recognition surveillance technology in the next few weeks.

More forces will follow unless we stop it now.

Nearly 26,000 people have signed our petition calling for the tech to be banned from public places – and more than 6,000 since the Metropolitan Police’s announcement.
Please add your name and help us get facial recognition off our streets for good.

Facial recognition cameras scan everyone within range and make biometric maps of our faces – more like fingerprints than photographs – in a shocking violation of our privacy rights.

These are then compared to images on secretive watchlists which can be of any of us whether we’re suspected of crime or not, and be sourced from anywhere – including our social media accounts. 

The tech is particularly bad news if you’re a woman or a person of colour, because you’re more likely to be misidentified by it and consequently stopped, questioned and searched by police. And the Met has a history of choosing to use it in locations known to have high BAME populations, embedding discriminatory approaches to policing.

Police use of facial recognition in public must be banned now.

Don’t let this oppressive tech become normal. It’s not.  

An independent review of the Met’s trial use of this tech found it failed to consider the human rights impact and that its use was unlikely to pass the key legal test of being “necessary in a democratic society”.

But it’s rolling out the tech anyway.

Join the fight against facial recognition technology. Sign the petition to ban police use of facial recognition tech in public.

Thank you for your support.

Martha Spurrier
Director

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