Youth advocacy worker misidentified by Met Police facial recognition
Date: 2024-02
Affected: Shaun Thompson
Attack vector: adversarial-input
Category: real-world
Severity: Medium

London's Metropolitan Police live facial-recognition van flagged anti-knife-crime youth worker Shaun Thompson as a wanted person and detained him for 30 minutes despite his protests, surfacing concerns about LFR error rates and accountability in UK policing.


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