{
  "id": 10678884,
  "title": "FOI docs: UK police's six-month live facial recognition trial in London railway stations scanned 500K+ faces, leading to no arrests and one false-positive alert (Daniel Boffey/The Guardian)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/foi-docs-uk-polices-six-month-live-facial-recognition-trial-in-london",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-29T11:25:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/29/trial-live-facial-recognition-cameras-london-stations-false-positive"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one - incorrect - alert",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}