The surveillance & liberty brief

Crow's Nest tracks license-plate readers, facial recognition, police surveillance and the wider civil-liberties beat, town by town. One free email each weekday morning, every line linked to the reporting it came from.

Monday, November 2 — as of 10:06 AM ET
Today's issue

UK police deployed live facial recognition

Monday, November 2, 2026 · 21 stories · view as email
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The pattern
Three police forces are deploying, testing or evaluating mobile facial-recognition surveillance.
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A nonpartisan group organized around the Fourth Amendment, with local chapters that show up at council meetings.
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