Innocent shoppers are being WRONGLY blacklisted by shops using facial recognition. Big Brother Watch’s Silkie Carlo said:
“Members of the public are now being put on secret watchlists, without their knowledge and without being shown any evidence, and then electronically blacklisted from their high streets.
Big Brother Watch has helped numerous innocent individuals who have had to chase down these private companies to prove their innocence…
In the rest of Europe, live facial recognition is banned for private companies’ use and supermarkets have been fined millions of euros for doing so.
The UK is a complete outlier for failing to rein in private facial recognition companies and the Government should take urgent action to ban its use for general surveillance of the public.”