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1. Freedo+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-08-14 06:25:58
This is untrue? Cameras in the UK are not "just used for surveillance". The facial recognition used recently has led to arrest of many offenders.

> The Met reported that in 12 months they made 580 arrests using LFR for offences including, rape, domestic abuse, knife crime, GBH and robbery, including 52 registered sex offenders arrested for breaching their conditions.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/live-facial-recognition-t...

That's statistics for London, not the rest of the UK.

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2. d--b+1f[view] [source] 2025-08-14 08:48:02
>>Freedo+(OP)
It doesn’t say how many times they handcuffed the wrong guy.
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3. rkomor+jf[view] [source] 2025-08-14 08:51:49
>>Freedo+(OP)
> The facial recognition used recently has led to arrest of many offenders.

I'm confused as to how that isn't also "surveillance".

Being able to know where someone is on your city sure seems like it fits the bill to me, unless you're considering it "enforcement" (and different from surveillance)?

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