A ‘shameful’ Green Party councillor has been accused of telling ‘murderers, rapists and burglars’ how to avoid a Met Police van using facial recognition technology.
Hau-Yu Tam, cabinet member for sanctuary and healing at Lewisham Council, shared a map on her social media accounts showing the precise location of the police van on Tuesday.
Metropolitan Police has begun using cutting edge ‘Live Facial Recognition’ technology (LFR) to round up hundreds of criminals across the capital.
LFR utilises mobile van-based CCTV cameras and artificial intelligence to compare the faces of passers-by with a watchlist of people wanted for committing crimes, failing to turn up to court hearings, or
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