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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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[–] dunestorm@lemmy.world 61 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Labour is doing almost as much damage as Reform would do… nobody asked for all this nanny state shit…

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Still, emphasis on the word almost. The key here is to swap out Labour candidates, not lose to reform next election.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Tell that to Andy Burnham.

We're not a purely two party state, like America, that requires changing the Democrats from within.

Labour is a captured organisation. The PLP is filled with authoritarians and Friends of Israel. And the PLP has the majority of power within the party. The effort required to change it from within would be better spent in the already established Green party and establishing Your Party.

The left can abandon Labour, as it abandoned the left in the 90s.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The UK Green Party of England and Wales? Currently they have 4 commons and 2 lords. They at least had the sensibility to ask Jill Stein to stand down, but they also endorse leaving NATO which is really fucking stupid.

Your Party 2025 is just a joke honestly, I'm surprised they got more seats than Lord Buckethead.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Ah well, might as well just lie down and give up then I guess.

/s

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] bishoponarope@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Of course they have, it's just the people asking for it are also the people who own, one way or another, the creatures we are presented with as political candidates. I.E. the billionaire and ownership class. What the plebs want doesn't matter, and the squeaky wheel gets the grease every time.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

Reform wouldn't win if they didn't help out.

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't worry. They'll U turn in 6 months once the political damage has had a really good chance to fester.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They're not going to abandon the surveillance state, it will only grow. They may posture like they're putting controls on it, but at some level all of the assholes in government want this.

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh I know it's what they want. They'll still u turn though once they loose enough in the polls after the media rip them apart. Just like every right labour try to bring in ID cards. Then after they loose the next election Reform-Tory will bring it in and the same media will wank them selves so much over it that you'd think Farage got milkshaked again.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I do not understand the governance of the UK

Why haven’t the people thrown the parties on their asses?

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Private ownership of the media and relentless propaganda.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think people are being dosed with some kind of pollutant that is inhibiting their fear center somehow, interfering with brain function to make them more trusting and compliant, and massive numbers with taxoplasmosis, a parasite that affects all mammals spread between rodents and cats, where the rodents lose their fear of cats when they get it.

I used to joke about that, half joke, I'm full serious now. In the US as well, something is fundamentally wrong with everyone, not just one side.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

COVID did cause real brain damage, we have not measured the impact at scale, but u think it made everyone more selfish and uncaring. 

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

That could be a factor I didn't even think of that.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

See, USA, that's how you roll out an Orwellian society. This way you can identify undesirables from the comfort of your offices, and then silently dispose of them when nobody is looking. No public executions needed!

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It actually doesn't do that. AI cameras such as flock cams have a history of misidentification, even framing unrelated third parties.

This is less Orwell and more Idiocracy.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

You are an unfit mother. Your children are now the property of Carl's Jr.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

Jesus Christ, UK. What the actual fuck.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago

How 1984 of them.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

UK announces largest ever facial... ಠ_ಠ

recognition rollout as part of policing reform.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah idk why the cutoffs are so short on some instances. Personally I think the feed would look fine with 5 lines of headline text on a post.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Usually when you think of reform, you imagine things getting better, not things getting worse…

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 7 points 3 weeks ago

Sadly, that word definitely means things getting worse in the UK now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_UK

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

New headline:

UK POLICE GETS FACIAL FROM LFR, WATCH LIVE ON MONDAY!

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Get out the ICP face paint

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago

UK, it's not a contest to be the most fascist. Calm down over there. Anyway, I've got to get back to starving under the Trump regime.