Met police profiling children ‘on a large scale’, documents show

Exclusive: force says Project Alpha scours social media to identify offenders and fight serious violence

Metropolitan police documents say the force has been collecting children's personal data" from social media sites as part of a project to carry out profiling on a large scale".

The Met says the scheme, known as Project Alpha, helps fight serious violence, with the intelligence gathered identifying offenders and securing the removal of videos glorifying stabbings and shootings from platforms such as YouTube.