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Starmer’s live facial recognition plan would usher in national ID, campaigners say (www.theguardian.com)

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"Civil liberties campaigners have said that a proposal made by Keir Starmer on Thursday 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.

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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[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Because it's been an EU proposal that has been on the cards for ages and was always resisted by the UK government because everyone since it was proposed it has been an easy target for politicians to sling shit at reasonable ideas out of Brussels.