Facial recognition row: police gave King's Cross owner images of seven people
by Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor from on (#4RTF7)
Met apologises after local police passed on images for controversial surveillance scheme
Images of seven people were passed on by local police for use in a facial recognition system at King's Cross in London in an agreement that was struck in secret, the details of which have been made public for the first time.
A police report, published on Friday by the deputy London mayor, Sophie Linden, showed that the scheme ran for two years from 2016 without any apparent central oversight from either the Metropolitan police or the office of the mayor, Sadiq Khan.
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