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Face-off in Britain over controversial surveillance tech
Face-off in Britain over controversial surveillance tech
Technology
by  AFP

On a grey, cloudy morning in December, London police deployed a state-of-the-art AI powered camera near the railway station in the suburb of Croydon and quietly scanned the faces of the unsuspecting passersby. Activists argue the technology places too much unmonitored power in the hands of the police, who have been given increased powers of arrest over protests through the Public Order Act.