Live Facial Recognition, AI Bias and the Equality Questions in R (Thompson and Carlo) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis

“207. The Commission emphasises that the world has seen the rapid development of artificial intelligence very recently with risks that, unless constrained by domestic and international law, States may use digital technologies to suppress dissent. In the domestic context, the uses to which LFR may be put, and the technology which supports it, will doubtless evolve but this claim is concerned with the terms of the Policy under challenge and (as we have said) its lawfulness now. We see no reason to take a different approach to Bridges.”