"Normalizing AI-powered monitoring at transport hubs is a slippery slope towards a surveillance state, and must be subject to greater transparency and public consultation"
Tfl tested an AI system combined with CCTV footage on Underground commuters to monitor behaviour
Documents sent to WIRED in response to a Freedom of Information Act request detail how TfL used a wide range of computer vision algorithms to track people’s behavior
https://www.wired.com/story/london-underground-ai-surveillance-documents/
meanwhile: in Croydon
#BigBrotherWatch on the ground in Croydon observing today's live facial deployment (pic)
and
Lincolnshire police and crime commissioner Marc Jones is calling for officers to increase their use of facial recognition to identify suspects.
@ecksmc could you just hold up a magazine, newspaper or turn away? Forced facial recognition..!?!
@bfgreen behind all the AI vans there are police cars
Police stand on street the vans are on to make sure you ain't covering face people have been fined for covering faces then refusing to uncover faces walk back to then walk past the AI vans to get recorded
@ecksmc
Oh my god, that is seriously awful 😬
@ecksmc make your facemask from these: https://www.spoonflower.com/en/shop
Gonna start wearing a mask- im protecting myself from other peoples germs just like the chinese and japanese do
@redenigma @ecksmc Perhaps thats why the chinese do it for sure!
post in that thread 
@ecksmcLOL!!!! @redenigma
@AkomoCombine @ecksmc i still wear a mask in stores or crowded areas. i'm vaxxed but high risk, & there are a lot of anti-vaxers that won't stay home when sick around here.
iCYMI
In UK these facial recognition vans were deployed and if you were seen covering up your face on approach you got finned £90
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/111132977084850274