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UK announces largest ever facial recognition rollout as part of policing reforms (www.biometricupdate.com)
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The UK has announced large-scale policing reforms, including new investments into artificial intelligence and increased Live Facial Recognition (LFR) deployments.

The Home Office has pledged to fund 40 new LFR vans as part of a national program to expand facial recognition capabilities in town centres across England and Wales, according to a white paper published on Monday.

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[โ€“] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

No. You don't get to say this is ok because it's Labour. This is authoritarian power grabs. Nobody voted for this because this was never shared with the public.

Labour, Tories and Reform all need to be cast into the wilderness for decades over what's going on right now.

[โ€“] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

The last dude in this thread to say basically the same thing at least had to balls to name other options and all they could come up with was the Anti-NATO party for one and the party which is literally just Corbynn and his buddy Sultana (1 seat) for the other.