Meanwhile:
Keir Starmer on Thursday wants to expand the use of live facial recognition technology would amount to the effective introduction of a national ID card system based on people’s faces.
PM is accused of ignoring civil rights and aping autocracies as he proposes new powers after far-right unrest
Facial recognition isn't the answer
Research by Big Brother Watch, one of the groups that co-ordinated the international statement, found that over 89% of UK police facial recognition alerts to date have wrongly identified members of the public as people of interest
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/111133000130186133
It just isn't
Deploying facial recognition at travel hubs, train stations bus stations, won't stop people who know they are on a watchlist from traveling to "protests" its deluded to think it will.
The PM is overreaching with this as a solution
Silkie Carlo, the director of Big Brother Watch, said it was ironic the new prime minister was suggesting a greater use of facial matching on the same day that an EU-wide law largely banning real-time surveillance technology came into force
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/14/what-will-eu-proposed-regulation-ai-mean-consumers