SurveillanceHigh
London Metropolitan Police's Facial Recognition Technology Reportedly Misidentified Shaun Thompson as Suspect Leading to Arrest
- Occurred
- Feb 1, 2024
- Published
- Jun 5, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Sometime in February 2024, Shaun Thompson is reported to have walked by one of the London Metropolitan Police's facial recognition technology vans near London Bridge. He was almost immediately arrested because the technology is reported to have misidentified him as a suspect in an unrelated and unspecified crime.
Developers
- Facial recognition system developers
Deployers
- Metropolitan Police Service
- Law enforcement
- Facial recognition system deployers
Harmed parties
- Shaun Thompson
- General public
- General public of the United Kingdom
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Facial recognition misidentification led to wrongful arrest, indicating significant harm and surveillance system failure.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8