To the horror of civil liberties campaigners, London's Metropolitan Police has announced plans to use live facial recognition cameras in the capital
The cameras will be used 'at locations where intelligence suggests we are most likely to locate serious offenders', says the Met, with a specific watch list for each. Cameras will be focused on a small area, and will be clearly signposted, with officers handing out leaflets to the public.
"This is a dangerous, oppressive and completely unjustified move by the Met. Facial recognition technology gives the state unprecedented power to track and monitor any one of us, destroying our privacy and our free expression," says Clare Collier, advocacy director at Liberty. The UK's privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office , last year investigated the use of facial recognition in public places - and concluded that there needed to be improvements in how police authorized and deployed the technology."Our Opinion acknowledges that an appropriately governed, targeted and intelligence-led deployment of LFR may meet the threshold of strict necessity for law enforcement purposes," it says.
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