UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new facial recognition vans

Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by jl6 on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @09:31AM (#44888211)

> Various privacy considerations are made with each LFR deployment in the UK, the cops say. These include notifying the public about when, where, and for how long LFR will be used in a given area, allowing them to exercise their right not to be captured by the technology.

Are they trying to normalize wearing masks, helmets, burkas and balaclavas everywhere?

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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by grepnork on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @10:59AM (#44889340)

Currently, the police are catching up with shopping centres and entertainment chains who've been using this tech for years.

The Police themselves have been using facial recognition to scrub tapes for far longer than LFR.

Amusingly, the firm the gazanaughts have been complaining was being used to spy on Palestinians was recently sold to an American Parking Lot operator.

The time to complain about high street facial rec sailed by a decade ago.

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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by scoot on Thursday August 14, 2025 @04:18AM (#44898047)

Where is this quote from? I couldn't see it in the article.

If true, wouldn't that simply lead to wanted suspects simply avoiding the cameras, meaning innocent people who aren't monitoring these notifications to have their faces and locations captured, while criminals avoid it?

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