Police insist facial recognition tech ‘a force for good’ after report finds it could recognise identical twins

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  1. >Madeleine Stone, legal and policy officer at **Big Brother Watch**, said: “This Orwellian technology may be used in China and Russia but has no place in British policing.

    >The [Big Brother Watch] organisation is headquartered in the China Works building, [Vauxhall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall), London, and previously at **[55 Tufton Street](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55_Tufton_Street), London**. 

    Typical Tories, soft on crime. 55 Tufton Street is honento half a dozen far right, pro-Tory groups. Including those which advised Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng on financial matters, as well as the ERG, Taxpayers Alliance, the LGB Alliance (which just attacks Trans people and “will get around to promoting LGB issues”).

  2. Fuck off is it. The police do not need a minute-by-minute track of everywhere everyone goes, no matter how much they’d like to get their grubby hands on one.

    Demonstrate you’re capable of using the powers you’ve already been granted **without abusing them** and then ask again.

  3. twins pass in front of the camera.

    camera: they are identical

    police: the can recognise twins

  4. Good, glad they’re rolling it back out again.

    Absolutely convinced most of the people opposed to this just haven’t bothered to read up on how the system works.

  5. If they get them I hope they are at least more accurate than the ones we have on the gate at work end up standing there like an idiot for 5 minutes trying to get in

  6. Tech of any kind is not “a force for good”. Tech just is. Whether it is good or bad depends e tiredly on the users of it, and in this case the users are the police, with track records of various abuses of power as long as your arm regardless of which constabulary were talking about.

    They’re just going to abuse this one too.

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