The UKās Metropolitan Police have began formally deploying Live Facial Recognition technology across London, claiming that it will only be used to identify serious criminals on ābespoke āwatch listsāā and on āsmall, targetedā areas.
Yet, at the same time, the UKās largest police force is also listed as a collaborator in a UK government-funded research programme explicitly intended to "develop unconstrained face recognition technology", aimed āat making faceā¦