Revealed: “Skyrocketing” scale of UK police's Secret Facial Recognition Searches of Passport and Immigration Databases (bigbrotherwatch.org.uk)
from Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 07 Aug 19:46
https://programming.dev/post/35268956

  • The Government has secretly allowed police forces to search over 150 million UK passport and immigration database photos with “Orwellian” facial recognition technology for 6 years.
  • The number of searches of the passport database has “skyrocketed” from 2 in 2020 to 417 in 2023. 16 searches of the immigration database were made in 2023, increasing almost sevenfold to 102 in 2024.
  • Campaigners to institute legal action, claiming it is an “historic breach of the right to privacy”.
  • Former minister Sir David Davis MP says “It’s outrageous that parliamentarians and the public have been kept in the dark about this extraordinary surveillance system”.

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wewbull@feddit.uk on 08 Aug 15:33 collapse

So, on average, every adult in the UK has been searched for 3 times.