It gets tedious after enough time to keep going on about 1984 or encroaching surveillance states, etc.  Cliched even.   Days after live facial recognition technology was established in Croydon, where it is being trialed, news stories were already cropping up to suggest how successful the system has already proven to be.   How much of that is legitimate and how much is carefully staged PR, I have no idea.   London is already famously the most CCTV heavy city in the world. This prevalence of surveillance cameras doesn’t appear to have done much, historically, to stop crime. But I … Continue reading London’s New Spy Tech, China, the Israel Connection & Why to Be Concerned…