"Civil liberties campaigners have said that a proposal made by Keir Starmer on Thursday to expand the use of live facial recognition technology would amount to the effective introduction of a national ID card system based on people’s faces.

Silkie Carlo, the director of Big Brother Watch, said it was ironic the new prime minister was suggesting a greater use of facial matching on the same day that an EU-wide law largely banning real-time surveillance technology came into force…"

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    4 months ago

    Oh yes just to clarify, I didn’t think that you specifically have a problem with a potential national ID system, I was just wondering what the people who do see it as a problem have against it