The UK police are on their backsides after decades of cuts to workforce. Society is not protected by cameras. People wear masks or hoodies when they mug old ladies. We need bobbies on the street.
He also is encouraging police to operate live facial recognition (LFR) cameras more widely, before a global artificial intelligence (AI) safety summit next week at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire.
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The campaign group Big Brother Watch has described the deployment of the technology by the police as “dangerous authoritarian surveillance” and warned that it is a “serious threat to civil liberties in the UK”.
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In response to the plans, a cross-party group of MPs and peers this month also called for an “immediate stop” to the use of live facial recognition surveillance by police and private companies.
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Former Brexit secretary David Davis, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey, Green MP Caroline Lucas and former Labour shadow attorney general Shami Chakrabarti were among 65 members of the Commons and Lords who backed a call for a halt to its deployment.
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The Home Office rejects such concerns, with officials saying that facial recognition camera use is strictly governed by data protection, equality and human rights laws, and can only be used for a policing purpose where it is necessary and proportionate.
The department says AI surveillance methods such as facial recognition can help police accurately identify those wanted for serious crimes, as well assist in finding missing people.
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Slippery slope IMO - also won’t do anything for criminals, they’ll just put on a mask or helmet.
The real fix is somewhere closer to more humans, not more tech
The UK police are on their backsides after decades of cuts to workforce. Society is not protected by cameras. People wear masks or hoodies when they mug old ladies. We need bobbies on the street.
With every single piece of news I read I’m glad I’m not living in the uk. It seems over the last 10 years it’s been getting more and more dystopian
Remember the Fifth of November
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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He also is encouraging police to operate live facial recognition (LFR) cameras more widely, before a global artificial intelligence (AI) safety summit next week at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire.
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The campaign group Big Brother Watch has described the deployment of the technology by the police as “dangerous authoritarian surveillance” and warned that it is a “serious threat to civil liberties in the UK”.
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In response to the plans, a cross-party group of MPs and peers this month also called for an “immediate stop” to the use of live facial recognition surveillance by police and private companies.
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Former Brexit secretary David Davis, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey, Green MP Caroline Lucas and former Labour shadow attorney general Shami Chakrabarti were among 65 members of the Commons and Lords who backed a call for a halt to its deployment.
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The Home Office rejects such concerns, with officials saying that facial recognition camera use is strictly governed by data protection, equality and human rights laws, and can only be used for a policing purpose where it is necessary and proportionate.
The department says AI surveillance methods such as facial recognition can help police accurately identify those wanted for serious crimes, as well assist in finding missing people.
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The original article contains 640 words, the summary contains 229 words. Saved 64%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!