PM accused of ignoring civil rights and aping autocracies as he proposes new powers after far-right unrest

"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…"

  • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months ago

    Ah right, it does make sense that people of a more libertarian bent would be against it in the UK as well, and I suppose that you folks do have a bit more reason to be leery of the government than we do over here (not that shit’s exactly excellent here either, mind you…)

    Thank you for the in-depth answer!