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Police across Britain equipped with live facial recognition bodycams (inews.co.uk)

submitted 11 months ago by leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 months ago

The Met are already using it - just not (yet) on bodycams.

The company behind it, who supply the data are called Facewatch. I'm not going to link to their site but they're the ones supplying the tech and db. They did it by scraping social media sites as well as government documents and the plan is to add the UK Passport db data soon.