Face-scanning CCTV approved for London hot-spots despite privacy storm

Surveillance cameras equipped with face detection technology have been approved for some of London’s premier cultural and shopping destinations, the Evening Standard has learned. The Barbican arts complex, Liberty department store and the Hay’s Galleria mall near London Bridge are among sites that have won planning consent to install state-of-the-art CCTV systems. It has led to calls for firms to be more “up front” about telling people how their data is used and stored.