British Transport Police trials live facial recognition at London Underground's Victoria station

Watchlist scanning arrives at Victoria station. Non-matches are deleted immediately, after being scanned.

British Transport Police and Transport for London are trialling live facial recognition cameras at London Underground stations, starting with Victoria station. The AI system aims to identify individuals on police watchlists but has drawn criticism from human rights groups over privacy and civil liberties concerns, despite safeguards like immediate deletion of non-matches.

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