The U.K. government is ramping up the use of public facial recognition, saying it wants to use it to tackle the country's rising rates of retail fraud.
Live facial recognition will be used in crowded areas to identify people wanted by the police—including repeat shoplifters—with images compared with specific people wanted by the police or banned from that particular location. Police in the area will then be alerted to try and track them down. "The number of offenders being charged for these crimes is increasing and while I want to see more people face consequences for their actions, our plan is designed to help put a stop to these crimes happening in the first place."
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