Privacy groups report a surge in UK police facial recognition scans of databases secretly stocked with passport photos lacking parliamentary oversight.
Big Brother Watch says the UK government has allowed images from the country’s passport and immigration databases to be made available to facial recognition systems, without informing the public or parliament.
The group claims the passport database contains around 58 million headshots of Brits, plus a further 92 million made available from sources such as the immigration database, visa applications, and more.
Everything I heard about the UK makes me feel ever so slightly better about living in the US
Well yeah because you only hear the bad things. Everything I hear about the US makes me feel slightly better about living in the UK. How are those school shootings going?
Every country has its pros & cons
They don’t affect me because I’m a childless adult.
I said slightly better, I wasn’t trying to get in a pissing match. We have a huge amount of preventable tragedies, yes, but the surveillance the UK is implementing, and their curbing of free speech and protests, are two areas that would have a profound effect on how I live my life. Ergo, I feel slightly better.
I’m sorry if I insulted your favorite government.
without informing the public or parliament
So someone in the Cabinet made this decision?
