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Facial Recognition Technology in use in Leicester Square, London, December 2018
A LORDS committee has warned that police use of live facial recognition (LFR) surveillance is being expanded without clear legal grounds.
The Lords’ Justice and Home Affairs Committee sent a letter questioning the lawfulness of the technology to Home Secretary James Cleverly on Saturday.
Police have been using LFR to scan the faces of everyone in range without consent and compare them with a database of people on a watch list.
The Met Police's refusal to act against British nationals accused of war crimes in Gaza is a green light for Israel's genocide, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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
