Police to use live facial recognition in Cambridge for first time
Police in Cambridge are set to deploy live facial recognition technology for the first time, marking an expansion of the surveillance tool into another UK city.
Why this matters: Live facial recognition is not like CCTV. It runs your face against a watchlist in real time, without your knowledge, as you walk down the street. Everyone in range gets scanned, not just people police are looking for. Cambridge joins a short but growing list of places where that is now routine. The technology makes mistakes, and those mistakes fall hardest on people who already face disproportionate policing. The public rarely gets a say before the cameras go on.
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