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Researchers say Google's ad-targeting system sometimes makes troubling decisions based on data about gender and other personal characteristics.

London's Metropolitan Police have been urged to back down on plans to once again use facial recognition software at next weekend's Notting Hill Carnival. Privacy groups including Big Brother Watch, Liberty and Privacy International have written to police commissioner Cressida Dick (PDF) calling for a U-turn on the use of the tech. Automated facial recognition technology will snap the party-goers' faces, and run them against a database. The aim is to alert cops to people who are banned from the festival or are wanted by the police, presumably so they can take immediate action. The tech was first tested at the festival - where relations between police and revellers are often strained - last year, but it failed to identify anyone.

"Android phones gather your location data and send it to Google, even if you've turned off location services and don't have a SIM card"

Object detection kit, scanning objects for a cleaner city

Alex Najibi's research into racial discrimination within facial recognition technology