> Italy['s] Data Protection Agency issued a rebuke to two municipalities experimenting with the technologies: «The moratorium arises from the need to regulate eligibility requirements, conditions and guarantees relating to facial recognition, in compliance with the principle of proportionality»
> The agency was reacting to measures taken in the southern Italian city of Lecce, where authorities said they would begin using a technology based on facial recognition [...] The privacy watchdog also targeted the Tuscan city of Arezzo, where local police were due to be equipped with infrared super glasses that can recognise car number plates
The specification about «fighting crime» seems to be there to directly exclude other petty purposes, while the legal constraints are waiting for better definition.
Anyway, I could not find better articles to clarify the point.
> The agency was reacting to measures taken in the southern Italian city of Lecce, where authorities said they would begin using a technology based on facial recognition [...] The privacy watchdog also targeted the Tuscan city of Arezzo, where local police were due to be equipped with infrared super glasses that can recognise car number plates