Police forces are conducting facial recognition searches on the public every two minutes. Separately, Essex Police are using this hugely intrusive tech for non-crime investigations. Police also use this technology to investigate low-level crime – Big Brother Watch’s research highlights. The campaign group’s Senior Advocacy Officer, Madeleine Stone, said: “Police use of facial recognition scanning to identify people in a ‘non-crime investigation’ is deeply Orwellian and demonstrates how police use of this technology is dangerously off the leash.”
The Telegraph – Use facial recognition for all crimes, police told
