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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Kumail Jaffer,Tom Place and Luke Reevey

Londoners wary of Live Facial Recognition rollout as operations trialled at major transport hubs

Londoners are concerned about the rollout of facial recognition technology (FRT) due to worries about errors, privacy and surveillance, recent polling has revealed.

Meanwhile the British Transport Police (BTP) has admitted its trial at railway stations, which has been running for six months, has caught no serious offenders as a result of using the technology, though they say the threshold has been set deliberately high in terms of the offenders it’s being used to find.

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