UK’s first use of city-wide facial recognition in Cardiff

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨RobotToaster@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨unitedkingdom@feddit.uk⁩

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/big-brother-watch-condemns-uks-first-use-of-city-wide-facial-recognition-in-cardiff/

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/26403103

Embedding facial recognition surveillance in a city-wide CCTV network represents a shocking expansion of police surveillance, and turns Cardiff into an Orwellian zone of biometric surveillance. This unprecedented use of the technology could pave the way for the mass rollout of permanent facial recognition surveillance across the UK. Live facial recognition technology turns us into walking barcodes and makes us a nation of suspects. This network of facial recognition cameras will make it impossible for Cardiff residents and visitors to opt-out of a biometric police identity check.

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Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Being put in jail for Facebook comments and now this, are we turning into China?

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- bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Don’t forget the (relatively) new protest laws
  
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  - Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    That, too. All while criticising them for Hong Kong
    
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Paddzr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Guess I’m not going there ever again. I live in rural ass area, so hopefully I have few years left before it reaches me… I’m surprised it’s not Nothingam first.

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- Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Why Nottingham?
  
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  - Paddzr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    It’s shit and absolutely full of cameras! I don’t speed and it still makes me uncomfortable.
    
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ladel@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I swear I remember reading that they’ve already been using facial recognition in some places before.

Stories of being arrested for a false positive soon to follow.

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OrlandoDoom@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Time to bally up for trips to the pub, the supermarket, a nice walk in the park, etc.

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blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I guarantee the majority of people will be OK with this too.

I wonder if putting on facepaint would fuck up the facial recognition? Also, I lived in Cardiff and South Wales for a while and the atmosphere during the Six Nations was great, I don’t recall there ever being any issues. Not sure if that’s changed over the recent years as an excuse for the city to deploy this tech, but it seems kind of odd that they’d need this.

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