Live facial recognition vans set to come to Eden Centre next week
Live facial recognition vans are scheduled to be deployed at the Eden Centre, a shopping location, as early as next week, according to local reporting.
Why this matters: This is surveillance of ordinary people running errands. A shopping centre is not a high-security facility. Everyone who walks past those vans gets their face scanned and matched against a database, without being told, without consenting, and without having done anything wrong. The technology can misidentify people, and mistakes in a public space can have real consequences. The core problem is not whether the system works. It is whether the public ever agreed to be watched this way just to go shopping.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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