⏰ UK MPs don't know where facial recognition is being used or how it is (or isn't) governed by law.
But the government wants to spend £20 million on police facial recognition systems anyway:
privacyinternational.org/news-…
UK government announces tender for live facial recognition technology
The UK government has published a £20 million procurement for tech companies to provide live facial recognition technology (FRT) to police forces across the UK.Privacy International
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺
in reply to Privacy International • • •As with all modern digital surveillance, if your own government or regime creates a #surveillance system, other actors — including good old-fashioned criminals — may be able to hoover up the data as well. 🤷🏻♂️
See the Chinese #SaltTyphoon intrusion into US networks. They want a dossier on everyone on the planet who's able to afford a phone.
Even CCP's own massive internal surveillance state is leaking Chinese subjects' data all over the place...
theregister.com/2024/12/08/chi…
How Chinese insiders are stealing data scooped up by President Xi's national surveillance system
Jessica Lyons (The Register)