The scale of the planned use was unprecedented, said Pete Fussey, who advises the biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner on human rights and ethnics, and who led an independent review of the Met’s previous trials of LFR in 2018-19.Article content
“A surveillance deployment for the coronation would likely be the biggest live facial recognition operation ever conducted by [the Met], and probably the largest ever seen in Europe,” said Fussey.: “The fact LFR is being used at the coronation is extremely worrying. LFR is a dystopian tool and dilutes all our rights and liberties.”
Buckingham Palace has seen a flurry of activity as tourists and international media begin to descend for the coronation — the first to take place in the country since Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953.said the presence of so many foreign dignitaries — and potentially myriad protesters — made maintaining security for the event “a very complex policing operation, a very complex intelligence operation.
Activists accused authorities of trying to intimidate protesters with a government letter reminding them of new police powers to curb disruptive demonstrations.