Four arrests using facial recognition technology

FOUR men have been arrested by police in London using controversial facial recognition technology.

Scotland Yard is using the surveillance software to find wanted individuals, by deploying cameras in specific areas to capture images of the passing public.

The faces caught on camera are then streamed into a facial recognition database and will alert officers if someone who is wanted for a crime happens to appear.

Civil liberties groups have long criticised the emerging technology as authoritarian and warned it puts Britain at risk of turning into a surveillance state.

Yesterday, the Metropolitan Police said four men were arrested on Friday in Westminster as part of an operation to tackle serious and violent crime.