London cops bring live facial recognition to West End
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The Metropolitan Police Service plans to deploy static live facial recognition (LFR) cameras across London's West End and Soho after a six-month pilot in Croydon, drawing criticism from civil liberties groups over privacy, racial-bias risk, and calls to pause until parliamentary regulation is in place; the force reported 173 arrests from 470,000 passersby in the Croydon deployments and defends LFR as part of a wider push to increase technology use amid budget constraints.
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