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GOVERNMENT failures have allowed police to exploit legal loopholes to store photographs of innocent people for use with face-recognition systems, MPs warned yesterday.
The Commons science and technology committee said it was “alarming” that officers were uploading images taken of suspects in custody to the police national database even if they were released without charge or later found not guilty.
The government had failed to respond strategically to the growing use of biometric data, leaving a “governance gap” that has allowed the police to begin collecting biometric data without proper oversight.
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
PAUL W FLEMING is unequivocal that Labour’s unpreparedness and resulting ambiguity on copyright in the creative industries has to be reined in with policies that will reverse the growing abuse by Big Tech AI
