• Major UK retailers urged to quit ‘authoritarian’ police facial recognition strategy

    Major UK retailers urged to quit ‘authoritarian’ police facial recognition strategy
    Human rights campaigners say the Pegasus initiative wrongly criminalises people of colour, women and LGBTQ+ peopleSome of Britain’s biggest retailers, including Tesco, John Lewis and Sainsbury’s, have been urged to pull out of a new policing strategy amid warnings it risks wrongly criminalising people of colour, women and LGBTQ+ people.A coalition of 14 human rights groups has written to the main retailers – also including Marks & Spencer, the Co-op, Next, Boots and Primark

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