BBC – Welsh police forces introduce intrusive facial recognition app

Big Brother Watch Team / December 13, 2024

South Wales & Gwent police forces have just introduced intrusive facial recognition app. It allows police officers to subject the public to “on-the-spot” face scans using a mobile device.

Big Brother Watch’s Jake Hurfurt said that this technology, known as Operator Initiated Facial Recognition (OIFR), “creates a dangerous imbalance between the public’s rights with the police’s powers”.

“In Britain, none of us has to identify ourselves to police without very good reason, but this unregulated surveillance tech threatens to take that fundamental right away,” Mr Hurfurt added.

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