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Critics called on the government to limit roll-out of facial recognition, but others have urged ministers to accelerate the expansion to ‘boost safety’

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Ministers have pledged to expand police use of facial recognition in a bid to track down dangerous criminals and are asking people how it should be used to form new laws.