UK rail cops' £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches

Summary by Cyber Security News30 Sep 2026, 10:30 CET

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British Transport Police (BTP) spent more than £320,000 putting half a million commuters through live facial recognition cameras, only for the system to identify precisely nobody it was looking for. Figures obtained by civil liberties group Liberty through Freedom of Information requests, and reported by The Guardian, show BTP's six-month trial scanned more than 500,000 faces at London railway stations and generated just one alert.

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