London Underground is trialing live face scanning from today as privacy groups say it 'treats the public like suspects' — here's how to avoid it
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Live facial recognition on the Tube shifts biometric surveillance from edge case to commuter routine—once normalized in transport, it tends to spread to retail, venues, and campuses. Any operator deploying cameras in the UK or EU should assume privacy groups will benchmark you against this and build a defensible policy stance now, not after rollout.
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