21st century authoritarianism. Humans learned nothing from the 20th century.

“Our deployments are intelligence-led and focused on identifying people wanted by the police or courts, including those suspected of serious offences and those who may be breaching bail conditions or court orders”

This is crazy. Could easily be used to track protesters who went to the an event the police didn’t like.

They weren't? That's more surprising given the UK surveillance state.

> People who prefer not to enter the recognition zone will have alternative routes available

Looking forward to seeing the singnage there.

UK has fallen.

This must be especially inconvenient for those with criminal physiognomy.

I really don't understand why they do trials for this. What would be the failure case for the trial? "We carried out the trial for 6 weeks over X period of time, we arrested Y people, at that rate we've decided this is not compatible with modern liberal democracy, we would've traded a free society for Y+2 arrests over X period but we just didn't quite get there"?

As suggested by other people - this is just going to be used to identify, infiltrate and disrupt the numerous peaceful protests that the police aren't keen on in London.

How will this handle face masks? Hijabs or Niqabs?