Today, the Metropolitan Police announced it will use live facial recognition operationally, scanning millions of people.

Our message to the Met? See you in court. 

Thanks to your support,  we are urgently planning the next steps in our ongoing legal challenge to the Met and the Home Secretary. 

We knew this wouldn't be easy. But we know we can win.

The Met has made this dangerous decision despite the lack of a clear legal basis; a damning independent review; our ongoing legal challenge; rights groups across the country raising the alarm; MPs calling for an urgent stop; and our investigation exposing a failure rate of over 90%.

It's clear: the police are expanding the surveillance state. 

Thank you for enabling us to fight it.

Meanwhile, please sign and share our urgent petition calling on the the Met Commissioner Cressida Dick and Home Secretary Priti Patel to stop this plan.

The Met is the largest police force in the world to roll out this authoritarian mass surveillance tool - except China. This is serious threat to civil liberties in the UK - and it sets a dangerous precedent worldwide. We need to stop it now.

Thanks to you, we're ready and waiting to take the Metropolitan Police and the Home Secretary to court over their lawless use of live facial recognition surveillance.

Since we initiated the legal challenge, the Met has paused its use of live facial recognition - but is refusing to disclose its future plans.

The Met's facial recognition pause means our legal challenge has had to be paused too.

Together, we've made the Met halt their use of live facial recognition - but we've got to make them drop it for good.

If the Met uses live facial recognition surveillance again, we'll proceed and take them to court.

Meanwhile, you may have seen we've been investigating and exposing the secret epidemic of live facial recognition across our country - from malls to museums, conference centres, landmarks and the Kings Cross area in London. 

Some of our investigations have uncovered murky police deals with private companies, where police have either given companies biometric photos to use with facial recognition, or allegedly 'advised' companies to use live facial recognition. 

We will keep digging and, with your support, we will win this battle to protect privacy. So please help keep us going.

Thank you for fighting this with us!

THANK YOU to everyone who is supporting, sharing and talking about our campaign - especially the 283 backers who are enabling us to bring this landmark legal challenge. 

Thanks to you, we've successfully raised £10,000 to stop police rolling out authoritarian facial recognition surveillance!

Here's what happens next...

The Met is expected to make a decision on its future use of live facial recognition within weeks. If they continue to use it, we will seek to proceed with our legal challenge. 

We will keep you posted on all the developments in our fight against this major threat to civil liberties in the UK. 

Thank you!

NEWS: The Met has now paused its use of facial recognition and is deciding whether to continue.

This is a vital and unique time to make your voice heard and send this template email to the police. 

Your email opposing this authoritarian surveillance today may help protect us from facial recognition in the future.

TAKE ACTION

• EMAIL THE POLICE: click the blue button on this page to generate a template email - we've provided a few starting points. Please add your name and edit to include any additional, personal concerns!

And remember - thanks to your support on CrowdJustice - if the Met does push ahead with face scanning in public, we will take them to court. 

Please share this action far and wide!

Thank you.

Thanks to all your support, we've almost reached our crowdfunding target. 

Over 200 of you have supported this legal challenge so far!

And we recently received an incredible direct donation of £1,500 towards the legal challenge, so we have reduced our £10,000 target here to £8,500. 

We're almost there!

With police scanning Christmas shoppers with live facial recognition cameras this month - resulting in misidentifications and wrongful stops - we need all the help you can give to end this.

Please keep sharing this campaign. Your shares raise vital awareness about this important issue and will help us to raise the £10,000 we need.

Thank you so much for your ongoing support and donations.

We've just filed our claim against the police's lawless use of facial recognition in the High Court. We could only do this thanks to your amazing support. Thank you.

We now need to wait for the Court to give us permission to proceed with the case - but we need your help.

We need your help to reach our £10,000 goal to proceed the case.

Please pledge now to help us progress this vital challenge.

Keep sharing this campaign. Your shares raise vital awareness about this important issue and can help us to raise the £10,000 we need.

Thank you!

We did it!!! Thanks to your fantastic support, we've hit our first goal of £5,000.

Thank you so much!

We've written to the Met Police and Home Secretary, explaining that facial recognition cameras breach citizens' rights, and our intention to bring a legal challenge unless they stop using them.

Now, we're planning next steps. Please keep sharing this campaign: we need to keep raising awareness & vital funds to win this fight. 

Thank you!