The police will be able to run facial recognition searches on a database containing images of Britain’s 50 million driving licence holders under a law change being quietly introduced by the government.
Should the police wish to put a name to an image collected on CCTV, or shared on social media, the legislation would provide them with the powers to search driving licence records for a match.
(I had missed that) earlier this year the #Tories abolished the role of the biometrics & surveillance camera commissioner (an independent 'watchdog') & now (surprises suprise) it has OK's the use of driving licence records allied to #facialrecognition technology by the force....
The #surveillancestate just got more intrusive - anyone who say the innocent have nothing to fear has been sadly inattentive to how #policiing now works in this country!
UK policing minister Chris Philp has said he wants to give the police access to the UK’s passport database, which will mean that public #FacialRecognition cameras can identify all of us. It will mean the End of Privacy in Public. Join our campaign to hold your MP to account.
Today's insane birdsite anecdote that will likely make a mini-vignette in my dissertation: the official account of the Benito Juárez International Airport gave a bunch of detailed surveillance data to clap back at a public figure that criticized their immigration processing times, lmao. Now we have confirmation that they use #facialrecognition simply because the CM is petty. #surveillance
UK policing minister Chris Philp has said he wants to give the police access to the UK’s passport database, which will mean that public #FacialRecognition cameras can identify all of us. It will mean the End of Privacy in Public. Join our campaign to hold your MP to account.
If you’re in the UK, join our ‘End of Privacy in Public’ campaign to demand that your MP finds out if dystopian #FacialRecognition technology is being deployed in your local area.
The proliferation of #FacialRecognition cameras in public places means that we'll be perpetually visible and identifiable to state bodies and private companies. Join our ‘End of Privacy in Public’ campaign to demand that your MP finds out if dystopian facial recognition technology is being deployed in your local area.
"AI raises the stakes... data is not only used to make decisions about you, but rather to make deeply powerful inferences about people and communities."
Beware greater automated decision-making with fewer safeguards over our data.
The fight for algorithmic justice is imperiled by the #DataGrabBill.
Cameras can be identified by location and type, the area being observed can be disclosed.
Surveillance under Surveillance/https://sunders.uber.space is an OpenStreetMap instance focused on surveillance cameras, it uses data that is not visualized on the OpenStreetMap.org instance.
If you’re in the UK, join our ‘End of Privacy in Public’ campaign to demand that your MP finds out if dystopian #FacialRecognition technology is being deployed in your local area.
The UK's race toward police state status continues unabated as use of facial recognition will be greatly extended -- another broken promise that the authorities clearly knew they would break. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67149222
It's pretty weird to me how Apple/iOS/etc. require you to type in your password for certain things, like installing an OS update. Why do you not trust the same biometric that allowed me access to the system?
#UK#RevolvingDoor#Surveillance#Biometrics#FacialRecognition: "The recently-departed watchdog in charge of monitoring facial recognition technology has joined the private firm he controversially approved, paving the way for the mass roll-out of biometric surveillance cameras in high streets across the country.
In a move critics have dubbed an “outrageous conflict of interest”, Professor Fraser Sampson, former biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner, has joined Facewatch as a non-executive director.
Sampson left his watchdog role on 31 October, with Companies House records showing he was registered as a company director at Facewatch the following day, 1 November. Campaigners claim this might mean he was negotiating his Facewatch contract while in post, and have urged the advisory committee on business appointments to investigate if it may have “compromised his work in public office”. It is understood that the committee is currently considering the issue."
« #UK police chiefs have announced plans to equip officers with a mobile-based #FacialRecognition tool that will enable them to cross reference photos of suspects against a database of millions of custody images from their phones.
The words of the Biometrics and Surveillance Commissioner – a post that’ll be abolished by the #DataGrabBill.
Advances in #facialrecognition tech without proper oversight and a political will to double its use in policing means innocent people will be subjected to authoritarian biometric #surveillance and discredited predictive #policing.
If you’re in the UK, join ‘The End of Privacy in Public’ campaign, and write to your MP today to demand they find out if #FacialRecognition cameras are being used in YOUR local area.