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Big Brother Watch launches fight against ‘Orwellian’ facial recognition
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CIVIL liberties campaigners launched a landmark legal challenge today to the Met’s use of “Orwellian” facial recognition cameras.

Big Brother Watch and Green Party peer Jenny Jones have filed papers with the High Court seeking permission to judicially review the Met’s use of automatic facial recognition (AFR).

AFR has been deployed at the Notting Hill Carnival and last year’s Remembrance Sunday.

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