Met Police UK Live Facial Recognition
It never ceases to amaze me how comfortable people here in the UK are with state-funded busy-bodies filming and monitoring them 24&#x2F;7.<p>It&#x27;s gotten so bad that if I were to write some offensive rap lyrics here I could be visited by the police to &quot;check my thinking&quot;, or worse I could prosecuted. This applies regardless of whether I&#x27;ve actually offended anyone, if the state feel what I said could hypothetical be considered offensive then it&#x27;s illegal. Similarly, if you are actually trying to be offensive, but your offense is directed to groups or individuals the state doesn&#x27;t like, you&#x27;ll be fine.<p>I&#x27;m sure a similar approach to enforcement will be applied here. If the state decides they don&#x27;t like you, perhaps because your protesting the wrong things, they&#x27;ll likely use this technology to keep you in line.<p>Literally no one here cares though. Brits tends to hold the opinion that if you just don&#x27;t say or do the wrong things you&#x27;ll be fine.