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I've heard that the UK has really gone in for surveilling the public with cameras, but I didn't know that they were also doing this:

As he passed a white van, he said police approached him and told him he was a wanted man.

"When I asked what I was wanted for, they said, 'that's what we're here to find out'."

He said officers asked him for his fingerprints, but he refused, and he was let go only after about 30 minutes, after showing them a photo of his passport.

No question there's a lot of horrible people out there, but I've always had a kind of "tie goes to the runner" attitude about it: there should be a fair chance you can evade the police. This business of scanning every face that walks by just isn't gentlemanly.

Last month, the Met said it had made more than 1,000 arrests since January 2024 using the technology, including alleged paedophiles, rapists and violent robbers, of which 773 had led to a charge or a caution.

How long before we see this in the US? (oh)