I’m getting more concerned by this knowing that now police will search supermarket CCTV records against passport databases
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Live facial recognition cameras scan faces of the public in specific locations and compare these with people on “watch lists” who may be wanted by police or the courts in association with crimes.
Police forces using the technology in the UK inform citizens in advance about when and where it will be deployed, and display physical notices alerting those entering areas where it is active to the presence of cameras.
“This dangerously authoritarian technology has the potential to turn populations into walking ID cards in a constant police line up,” says Silkie Carlo, the director of privacy organisation Big Brother Watch.
The group calling for the ban includes parliamentarians from the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green parties, along with campaigning organisations such as Amnesty, Index on Censorship and Big Brother Watch.
Ms Carlo, of Big Brother Watch, argued the UK’s “approach to face surveillance makes us a total outlier in the democratic world, especially against the backdrop of the EU’s proposed ban”.
The Home Office said the government was “committed to making sure the police have the tools and technology they need to solve and prevent crimes, bring offenders to justice, and keep people safe”.
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autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 11 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Live facial recognition cameras scan faces of the public in specific locations and compare these with people on “watch lists” who may be wanted by police or the courts in association with crimes.
Police forces using the technology in the UK inform citizens in advance about when and where it will be deployed, and display physical notices alerting those entering areas where it is active to the presence of cameras.
“This dangerously authoritarian technology has the potential to turn populations into walking ID cards in a constant police line up,” says Silkie Carlo, the director of privacy organisation Big Brother Watch.
The group calling for the ban includes parliamentarians from the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green parties, along with campaigning organisations such as Amnesty, Index on Censorship and Big Brother Watch.
Ms Carlo, of Big Brother Watch, argued the UK’s “approach to face surveillance makes us a total outlier in the democratic world, especially against the backdrop of the EU’s proposed ban”.
The Home Office said the government was “committed to making sure the police have the tools and technology they need to solve and prevent crimes, bring offenders to justice, and keep people safe”.
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