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London is installing permanent live facial recognition cameras on Oxford Street by Christmas.

Half a million shoppers a day will have their faces scanned and compared against police watchlists.

The government ran a public consultation on a proper legal framework for the technology that closed in February and still hasn't published a response, but the cameras are going up anyway.

Building the surveillance infrastructure first and sorting out the rules later.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/facial-recognition-cameras-oxford-street-metropolitan-police-b3072030.html