SurveillanceMedium
Facial Recognition Trial Performed Poorly at Notting Hill Carnival
- Occurred
- Aug 26, 2017
- Published
- Sep 9, 2017
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
The facial recognition trial by London’s Metropolitan Police Service at the Notting Hill Carnival reportedly performed poorly with a high rate of false positives.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- Metropolitan Police Service
Harmed parties
- Notting Hill Carnival goers
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Facial recognition trial failure by police constitutes surveillance technology misuse with notable performance issues.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8