Big Brother Watch condemns UK’s first use of city-wide facial recognition in Cardiff — Big Brother Watch
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Embedding facial recognition surveillance in a city-wide CCTV network represents a shocking expansion of police surveillance, and turns Cardiff into an Orwellian zone of biometric surveillance. This unprecedented use of the technology could pave the way for the mass rollout of permanent facial recognition surveillance across the UK. Live facial recognition technology turns us into walking barcodes and makes us a nation of suspects. This network of facial recognition cameras will make it impossible for Cardiff residents and visitors to opt-out of a biometric police identity check.

  • Shezzagrad@lemmy.mlEnglish
    205·
    20 hours ago

    So where are all the dorks always talking about the CCP and social credit score now? Britian and America are gonna do the same if not already done

    • archchan@lemmy.mlOP
      6·
      16 hours ago

      5 Eyes has been simping for China’s Golden Shield for as long as China has had it. Now Curtis Yarven and his circle of authoritarian tech bro freaks and 5 corpos in a trench coat are running America. Then the UK gets Apple to remove ADP and now, a nation that already has a hard-on for security cameras decides to expand biometric surveillance in quick succession. Hmm… interesting.

    • glimse@lemmy.world
      4·
      16 hours ago

      What is this comment trying to say? Do you think the people who are critical of surveillance in China are OK with it in their cities? You’re gloating to a strawman

      • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
        42·
        15 hours ago

        Weird, I just had a bunch of mls tell me just the other day that a comment I made was strawmanning a hypothetical tankie telling me I’m wrong.

        And here we see yet another ml strawmanning.

        Super Weird.

        All I see is a bunch of people saying this is dystopia nightmare shit, and so far the only person I’ve seen do anything other than call it what it is is the ml comparing this to China.

        Surveillance states are bad anywhere, you won’t get many people arguing that city wide government facial recognition is a good thing.

    • GluWu@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      Most cities in the US have been running clearview ai facial recognition city wide for several years now.