Home Office officials have drawn up secret plans to lobby the independent privacy regulator in an attempt to push the rollout of controversial facial recognition technology into high street shops and supermarkets, internal government minutes seen by the Observer reveal.
The covert strategy was agreed during a closed-door meeting on 8 March between policing minister Chris Philp, senior Home Office officials and the private firm Facewatch, whose facial recognition cameras have provoked fierce opposition after being installed in shops.
Wouldn't you be better off sorting out the justice system instead, to ensure that theft is
properly policed and punished? But no, falling for shiny new toys is
so much more fun...
Julia, not only that, but I read a news item recently where a spokesman for some shop chain admitted that they know who are the shop thieves. If that's true, then what benefit is facial recognition? That's a rhetorical question because the answer is - None.
ReplyDeleteI wonder whose bright idea it was to infest the judiciary and the police with lefties?
I have my suspicions...
DeleteNot to worry. The system will inevitably have a disproportional recognition of the more vibrant members of society. In the name of equity it will have to be tweaked until the output is obviously useless. The whole idea will be lost in the noise of the next big idea.
ReplyDeleteI fear you're right!
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