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First permanent facial recognition cameras to go up in London despite ‘dystopian’ warning

Brooke Davies
By Brooke Davies

Permanent facial recognition cameras are coming to London, despite campaigners warning the move is the first step towards ‘a dystopian nightmare’.

Croydon is set to see the city’s, and the rest of the democratic world’s, first permanent live facial recognition (LFR) placed to scan faces and match them to a criminal database.

They will sit attached to lampposts or buildings on pedestrianised streets, and be just a short walk away from where schoolgirl Elianne Andam was stabbed to death outside the Whitgift Centre.

There is relief among residents and shoppers, who hope the cameras will help bring down the rate of crime keeping them up at night.

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