News in brief: facial recognition planned for Carnival; spy chief backs encryption; ginger emoji planned

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Protests at plans to use facial recognition at Carnival Civil liberties groups have protested at plans by London’s Metropolitan Police to use facial recognition software to scan the faces of people partying at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival. Tens of thousands of people party in the streets of west London’s Notting Hill Gate on the last weekend of August, and the civil rights group Liberty has challenged the decision to use the technology to spot troublemakers, saying it’s racist, as the carnival is rooted in the capital’s African-Caribbean community.

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