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What are you on about? Arresting innocent people with face scanning is absolutely relevant - critical to this.

Locking you up in a cage for days when you did nothing wrong, dragging you into court where you need to defend your life is pretty much almost the worst thing a modern western state can do to you.

So it's kind of relevant if they're doing that.

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No it is not so much for these particular cameras – the people spotted would have been arrested if seen before.

There are two types of cameras – the Flock type of which there are many more in the UK which record all the time and spot people committing a crime where the video is kept and these which do not retain video but are used in real time by police to see if there is anyone who they already have put on a list to be arrested.

There is a case of a flase positive - detained for 30 minutes




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