Police are now scanning faces at a London Underground station

Police are now scanning faces at a London Underground station

The British Transport Police announced it would start using facial recognition cameras in a London Underground station. The Victoria Underground station was the first to be equipped with cameras. The cameras scan the faces of everyone who walks past them and compare each face to a watchlist of people the police or the courts want to find. — Read the rest The post Police are now scanning faces at a London Underground station appeared first on Bo…

Police expand live facial recognition trials to London Underground

Live facial recognition cameras are being trialled in select London Underground and Network Rail stations, prompting warnings over the expansion of biometric surveillance in Britain. Big Brother Watch Director Silkie Carlo said the technology was a “digital police line-up” that will capture “millions of innocent people’s faces,” turning commuters into “walking ID cards”. She claimed an earlier trial scanned more than half million commuters and p…