The UK is one of the most effective and longest running surveillance states so this should not be a surprise to anyone.

Right, but suspects of what? Just in general, all the crimes they know about?

I don&#x27;t personally support this surveillance, but that isn&#x27;t what the articles says. It says they will be &quot;scanning for suspects from above.&quot; And later quotes the Met making reference to &#x27;intelligence&#x27;. So conceivably they could have information about the plans of specific individuals at this event.

It&#x27;s worth stating that historically these right-wing culture protests have been a bit more violent in nature than most protests are. I&#x27;m not suggesting that everyone in the protest is violent, but there&#x27;s enough mob mentality that makes me (someone who lives in London) uncomfortable.

Its definitely not heinous crimes. It&#x27;s just recording people at events to know who&#x27;s of what political persuasion.

Must be some heinous crimes to enable dragnet surveillance. That or the rotten state of Britain really is trying anything from splitting at the seams.Must be the heinous crime thing tho.

facial recognition is old news, the development of intent prediction is the edge.

Wow, that&#x27;s... quite the precedent. Presumably this is a Reform UK event, which I&#x27;m not a fan of, but still, I don&#x27;t think this escalation of surveillance will end well.The article says that drones &quot;will scan the faces of suspects&quot;, suspects of what exactly? What crime has been committed that they suspect people for?

London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time