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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

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

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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

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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

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