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Click Here·May 19, 2026·28m

Faces in the crowd

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Body cameras were supposed to watch the police. Now some of them can identify the public, too. In Edmonton, Canada, police tested facial recognition-equipped body cams in a pilot program that raised a bigger question: what happens when anonymity disappears from public life? Zach Hirsch reports on the uneasy future of being seen.

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