London's Metropolitan Police just turned on facial recognition in one of the world’s busiest shopping districts
Share to facebookLondon police turn on live facial recognition just outside the Microsoft store in the center of theJust across from the Microsoft store on London’s Regent Street, and just outside the entrance to the Oxford Circus tube station, cameras atop dark blue police vans are watching passersby.across the British capital would reduce serious crime, though it's not without its critics, especially those decrying its impact on privacy in one of the world’s busiest shopping districts.
“It’s discriminatory - the tech is most likely to misidentify women and people from black, asian and minority ethnic communities,” Liberty’s literature warned. “It violates our privacy rights... By mass-scanning the faces of everyone in range, the police are capturing personal biometric data without our consent.”
Faces of those who aren’t on watchlists are blurred out in the footage viewed by officers inside the van and are not stored on police computers. And, the Met added, it’s only used at specific locations for a limited time. But such claims didn’t wash with Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, who said her organization was “appalled” that London mayor Sadiq Khan had approved the technology."It’s alarming to see biometric mass surveillance being rolled out in London. Never before have citizens been subjected to identity checks without suspicion, let alone on a mass scale,” she added.
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