London Bridge's AI-Surveillance Experiment

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No facial recognition? No problem! How London Bridge tested tech to track individuals inside the station

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London Bridge tested AI smart station’ technology at Willesden Green and Liverpool Street stations.

Both declined to use biometric’ facial recognition to identify or track the people inside their stations.

Tracking people using their face is legal in the UK but only in very strict circumstances.

Video analytics is now routinely used at London Bridge .

Ipsotek software lets operators manually look through tags, adding or removing hits from the timeline, and plotting the implied route automatically on a map.

Network Rail has declined to confirm or deny what other use case the AI cameras are being used for.

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