General Article The Met is watching you

Topic Selected: Protecting Our Privacy Book Volume: 451

We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance.

By Rosie Norman

Walking down my local high-street recently, I noticed several unmarked police vans. At first I was reassured by their presence since London has become something of a hotspot for violent crime lately. However, the Met Police were in fact not doing ordinary policing. Instead, they were trying out live facial recognition technology on the unsuspecting public (as a small sticker on the side of the van a...

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