Met Police arrest 13 people in two days using ‘dystopian’ facial recognition cameras
by Maira Butt
Jan 24, 2024
3 minutes
London’s Metropolitan Police have arrested over a dozen people in two days using controversial Live Facial Recognition technology in Croydon.
The operation which took place on Saturday 20 January and Tuesday 23 January consisted of LFR cameras being focused on a specific area in Croydon and as people pass through that area their images are streamed directly to the Live Facial Recognition system.
Ahead of the deployment police upload images of criminals who are wanted onto a database. say this system contains a “watchlist” of offenders who are wanted by the police and/or
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