"The government this week opened a consultation on its plan for nationwide facial recognition and surveillance. You would need only put your face outdoors and walk down the street and authorities will know and record it. Of course we will be assured that all will be kept secure. It will not. Cash or conspiracy will find it out and it will leak."
"Already, the consultation is a lie. Facial surveillance is already up and running. London's Met police claims it has caught more than 100 sex offenders breaking their licence conditions. At least six forces have their town centres plugged in and Whitehall has admitted that it intends the technology to be used nationwide. The policing minister, Sarah Jones, calls facial surveillance the biggest breakthrough for catching criminals since DNA matching. It will help free up police time. What's not to like?"
"It does not always succeed. In 2013, the government tried to introduce a nationalised NHS data system that amassed all local GP records of personal health. This, it intended, would help supply A&E departments with possibly life-saving information, and aid research. The data would be surrounded with safeguards against abuse. The collected material would be ostensibly anonymised and sold to industry to help cover costs."
Nothing online is ever secure, as corporate breaches and whistleblower revelations demonstrate. The government opened a consultation on nationwide facial recognition and surveillance, enabling authorities to record faces in public. The technology is already in use; London's Met police report catching over 100 sex offenders and at least six forces have town-centre deployments, with Whitehall planning nationwide rollout. The policing minister calls facial surveillance a major breakthrough that will free police time. Centralized biometric and health-data systems carry high risks of leaks and misuse; a 2013 NHS data-collection effort collapsed after widespread public opt-outs.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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