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From Covert to Overt: UK Government and Businesses Seek to Unleash Facial Recognition Technologies Across Urban Landscape (www.nakedcapitalism.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“Live facial recognition is a dystopian mass surveillance tool that turns innocent members of the public into walking ID cards,”

Across seven months, thirteen deployments, hundreds of officer hours, and over half a million faces scanned in 2023, police have made just three arrests from their use of this intrusive and expensive mass surveillance tool… Rather than promote its use, the Government should follow other liberal democracies around the world that are legislating to ban this Orwellian technology from public spaces.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

To protect [...] our stock

They're exchanging everyone's right to privacy to protect some junk. Because the part about the employees and customers is bogus let's be honest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This bullshit already made it over to this side of the pond