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Police expand live facial recognition trials to London Underground

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 UKCyber News and BTP.pol.uk.

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  1. Western sheeple pre covid “we have freedoms, a Bill of Rights and live in a democracy! We’ll never be like communist China where the government spies on everything you do”. Western sheeple in August 2026 “government cameras everywhere spying on you without your consent is good for democracy!”

  2. China also has a surveillance state which isn’t a by product of Communism but instead widespread crime. Mainly the poor from the North moving South and committing crimes.

    In the UK by contrast its been induced. Import foreign perverts, rapists and knife wielding offenders, now you have a valid justification for a surveillance state. A perfect outcome for the globalists.

  3. The Brits have ALLOWED this to happen by NOT holding those in government accountable!
    They have only themselves to blame for that AND the migrant crisis as noted by Paul Joseph Watson!
    https://www.youtube.com/@PrisonPlanetLive/videos
    But, then again we live in a deceptive eugre posing as freak shows as noted by the Snordster…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc1O4ms4FEk
    But, here again, the soft hidden Zionist tyranny is what runs the surveillance systems…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBBqjGd3fHQ
    Western Society won’t last much longer unless there is a MASSIVE blowback in terms of the political, economic and social aspects of a degrading human existence!

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