West Yorkshire Police are set to use live facial recognition in Leeds for the first time. Jasleen Chaggar, legal and policy officer at Big Brother Watch said:
“We all want serious crimes to be caught, but that doesn’t mean that you need to introduce disproportionate and rights-infringing technology,”
“If the police said, ‘we’re going to take a cheek swab of everyone on the high street just to check that they’re not who we’re looking for’, the public would rightly be outraged.” –