London is installing permanent live facial recognition cameras on Oxford Street by Christmas. Half a million shoppers a day will have their faces scanned and compared against police watchlists. The government ran a public consultation on a proper legal framework for the technology that closed in February and still hasn't published a response, but the cameras are going up anyway. Building the surveillance infrastructure first and sorting out the rules later. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/facial-recognition-cameras-oxford-street-metropolitan-police-b3072030.html