"I would like to contribute: You must respond by 12/02/2026. We're sending a message to the Home Secretary and Met police chief Mark Rowley that facial recognition has no place in British policing. We're urging them to immediately stop using authoritarian live facial recognition, and if enough of us join the call, we can make them rethink. Sign (and share!) here: SIGN HERE"
"This works by rapidly creating a biometric "faceprint" of your face - sensitive data that uniquely identifies you - much like a fingerprint, and comparing this for similar matches on a database. Reference databases have been built from various sources including: CCTV images of "suspects" or "problem" individuals Subsets of the police's enormous database of 19 million custody images, which includes vast numbers of photos of innocent people police intelligence databases, including innocent people with suspected mental health problems and political campaigners"
Live facial recognition rapidly creates biometric "faceprints" that uniquely identify individuals and compares them against databases for matches. Reference databases include CCTV images of "suspects" or "problem" individuals, subsets of the police's 19 million custody images containing many photos of innocent people, and police intelligence databases that include innocent people with suspected mental health issues and political campaigners. Some systems trawl internet data in real time to identify photos posted anywhere. The campaign offers petition signing, donations, newsletter subscriptions, and attends deployments to demonstrate, hand out leaflets, observe and record police actions while calling for an immediate stop to authoritarian live facial recognition.
Read at Stop Facial Recognition - Big Brother Watch
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