The legality of police live facial recognition policy
Dr William Page explores and critiques latest High Court decision on facial recognition devices: the scope and limitations of Thompson and Carlo.
In April 2026, the Divisional Court handed down its judgment in The King (Thompson and Carlo) v The Commissioner of Police of The Metropolis [2026], the second major judicial challenge to the use of Live Facial Recognition (LFR) by law enforcement in England and Wales. The court was asked to consider whether the Metropolitan Police Service’s overt LFR policy met the legal standard of being sufficiently clear and foreseeable to justify interference with rights under the...Read full article