London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

	London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces(btp.police.uk)
	377 points by BlueBerry2001 63 days ago \| 504 comments
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	HN Discussion: ↑Firsthand account confirming the surveillance deployment and police hostility to observation ~Anonymous travel already died with contactless payments; this is just continued erosion ↑UK is becoming Orwellian and will use this to silence dissent and protests ↑Surveillance is ineffective given rampant crime and lenient sentencing in the UK ↓Cameras are useful tools for understaffed police and shouldn't be feared