Police involvement in a private landlord’s facial recognition trial has led a regulator to call for government intervention.
BBC Radio 4’s File on 4 has learned that South Yorkshire Police shared three photos of serious offenders and one of a vulnerable missing person with Sheffield’s Meadowhall shopping centre.
It follows similar controversial tie-ups in Manchester and London.
Meadowhall owner British Land said the 2018 test only lasted four weeks.
It added that it had “no plans” to use facial recognition at its sites ... Read even more
