UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London
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The Metropolitan Police will install two fixed live facial recognition cameras in Croydon’s town center after a two-year trial with mobile vans, citing sub-1% error rates, rapid suspect alerts against a 16,000-person watchlist, and image deletion for non-matches; privacy advocates and a House of Lords committee raise concerns about bias, oversight, and legality, while government figures support the rollout as a crime-fighting measure.
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