Live facial recognition cameras are being trialled in select London Underground and Network Rail stations, prompting warnings over the expansion of biometric surveillance in Britain.
Big Brother Watch Director Silkie Carlo said the technology was a “digital police line-up” that will capture “millions of innocent people’s faces,” turning commuters into “walking ID cards”. She claimed an earlier trial scanned more than half million commuters and produced just one misidentification, adding that facial recognition has become a routine policing tool rather than being reserved for exceptional circumstances.
Carlo described the expansion as “disturbing and dystopian” and called on British Transport to abandon the technology. Read more at Big Brother Watch UK, Cyber News and BTP.pol.uk.
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