CCTV: London is third most monitored city in world beating Moscow and Beijing
dailystar.co.ukLondon is the third-most surveilled city on the planet.It’s beaten only by Chinese cities of Taiyuan and Wuxi. No other city in Europe comes even close to London, where more cameras are being added daily and police are introducing facial recognition technology to make the surveillance even more potent.Campaign group Big Brother Watch warned last month that the use of facial recognition technology represented “one of the most serious threats to civil liberties of recent years.”A statement from the group said: "This China-style mass surveillance tool risks turning CCTV cameras into biometric checkpoints and citizens into walking ID cards.Ironically, the government’s own rules about wearing masks in public are Londoners’ only defence against a.
Read more on dailystar.co.uk
