The owner of a British company that has developed a shared CCTV scheme to identify criminals plans to expand by linking shops' facial recognition systems.Simon Gordon, the founder of Facewatch, told the BBC that his firm is testing facial recognition technology and that ideally companies or stores could link face-recognition system to Facewatch and access a watch-list that's relevant for its premises and group.”Then, if someone walks into your premises, it will send you an alert.”However, privacy campaigners have criticised the idea as potentiallyEarlier this year, UK biometrics commissioner Alastair MacGregor warned that image databases and face recognition could be used to track people's movements by “combining widespread CCTV and access to a huge searchable database of CCTV images”.
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