British supermarket chain Asda has initiated a trial of live facial recognition technology across five of its stores in Greater Manchester, England, UK. The aim is to evaluate the potential of this ...

However, privacy groups such as Big Brother Watch have condemned the move and called for legislative safeguards on facial ...

Body-worn video cameras could enable police officers to carry out live facial recognition - raising fears over the rise of ‘dystopian’ technology. Chief Constable Jo Farrell said use of the ...

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 ...