Today, the court ruled that the Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial recognition is lawful. That should alarm anyone who cares about privacy, civil liberties, and the future of public space.
When millions of innocent faces can be scanned in the street, surveillance stops being exceptional and starts becoming infrastructure. Big Brother Watch is backing Shaun Thompson’s appeal for a reason: once this becomes normal, rolling it back gets much harder.
Do we really want Britain to become a place where cameras act like biometric checkpoints in everyday life?
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/responding-to-live-facial-recognition-judgment/
#Privacy #Surveillance #FacialRecognition #DigitalRights #CivilLiberties
beitmenotyou1 / Michael J Burgess
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