Tortoise – Campaigners slam the Met Police’s use of facial recognition as “intrusive”

Big Brother Watch Team / October 10, 2024

Commenting on the Met Police’s use of live facial recognition technology in policing, Mark Johnson of Big Brother Watch said: “The way live facial recognition works is that these systems scan the faces of every single person in a crowd indiscriminately, and Your face contains biometric data. So, a face print is not entirely dissimilar to a fingerprint.

“You wouldn’t have the police fingerprinting members of the public indiscriminately as they walk down the street and so from a privacy perspective, thinking about the presumption of innocence, thinking about the idea that really surveillance should follow, suspicion doesn’t really hold water at all… it’s a deeply intrusive practice.”

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