Brit rail cops bring live facial recognition to the London Underground
The cameras will then rotate between Underground and Network Rail stations until the trial ends in November.The trial began at London Bridge railway station in February and is intended to assess how the technology performs in a railway setting. It follows deployments by the Metropolitan Police, which says it will start using face-scanning cameras in London's West End and Soho by the end of this year after a six-month pilot in the south London borough of Croydon. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); Live facial recognition scans faces within a camera's field of view and compares them with a police watchlist.
- ▪The cameras will then rotate between Underground and Network Rail stations until the trial ends in November.The trial began at London Bridge railway station in February and is intended to assess how the technology performs in a railway sett
- ▪It follows deployments by the Metropolitan Police, which says it will start using face-scanning cameras in London's West End and Soho by the end of this year after a six-month pilot in the south London borough of Croydon.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); Live facial recognition scans faces within a camera's field of view and compares them with a police watchlist.
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); SECURITY Brit rail cops bring live facial recognition to the London Underground Victoria is the first stop as privacy campaigners warn the technology is becoming routine Dan Robinson Dan Robinson IT INFRASTRUCTURE REPORTER Published wed 12 Aug 2026 // 12:19 UTC British Transport Police is expanding its trial of live facial recognition (LFR) to the London Underground, despite concerns about privacy and mistaken identification.The force, which polices railways across England, Scotland, and…
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