Responding to the news that South Wales Police will be using Live Facial Recognition in Cardiff on 13 and 17 May, Mark Johnson, Advocacy Manager at Big Brother Watch said:
“Live facial recognition is an authoritarian mass surveillance tool that turns the public into walking ID cards. South Wales Police are riding roughshod over citizens’ right to privacy with this decision. They must urgently drop their plans to use this rights-abusive technology on innocent members of the public in Cardiff.
“These Orwellian surveillance systems may be used in China and Russia but have no place on the streets of Britain.”
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