London, and the UK in general, are "renowned" for the sheer scale of indiscriminate mass surveillance carried out in the streets using surveillance cameras.
And despite the consistent criticism of the practice, the authorities there seem to be determined to continue to triple down.
Not all surveillance is made equal, either; the kind the Metropolitan Police are now testing is known as Live Facial Recognition (LFR), and a trial carried out this week in the busy Oxford Circus intersection has ruffled some feathers in the privacy and civil rights advocate community.
The idea behind facial recognition systems is to match a human face from an image or a video frame against a database. LFR is a real-time deployment of the tech that compares live camera feed(s) of faces against an existing watchlist.
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