The UKâs Metropolitan Police have began formally deploying Live Facial Recognition technology across London, claiming that it will only be used to identify serious criminals on âbespoke âwatch listsââ and on âsmall, targetedâ areas.Â
Yet, at the same time, the UKâs 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 âat making face recognition ubiquitous by 2020". âŠ