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The UKās Metropolitan Police have began formally deploying Live Facial Recognition technology across London, claiming that it will only be used to identify serious criminals on ābespoke āwatch listsāā and on āsmall, targetedā areas.
Yet, at the same time, the UKās largest police force is also listed as a collaborator in a UK government-funded research programme explicitly intended to "develop unconstrained face recognition technology", aimed āat making faceā¦
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The European Union (EU) spends billions on research and development aimed at driving economic growth and jobs, as well as furthering the blocās broader agenda. Within the current budget, known as Horizon 2020 and covering the years 2014-2020, some ā¬80 billion has been made available for research in a huge number of areas, ranging from finding cures for diseases to helping keep the earth viable for life.
From the same budget, it also funds a lot of projects aimed at developing surveillanceā¦