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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.
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
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