Closer and closer to a social credit score system
Well that’s one way to deter car usage in future generations.
You could almost call it a “war on motorists”, Mr Sunak?
No somehow it’s Sadiq Khans fault
Just wear juggalo facepaint on your commute, privacy maintained
Stregth through unity and unity through faith?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The police will be able to run facial recognition searches on a database containing images of Britain’s 50 million driving licence holders under a law change being quietly introduced by the government.
Should the police wish to put a name to an image collected on CCTV, or shared on social media, the legislation would provide them with the powers to search driving licence records for a match.
The move, contained in a single clause in a new criminal justice bill, could put every driver in the country in a permanent police lineup, according to privacy campaigners.
The intention to allow the police or the National Crime Agency (NCA) to exploit the UK’s driving licence records is not explicitly referenced in the bill or in its explanatory notes, raising criticism from leading academics that the government is “sneaking it under the radar”.
The policing minister, Chris Philp, made a first explicit reference to what appears to be the unsaid purpose of the legislative change during a first committee sitting of MPs scrutinising the bill on 12 December.
Questioning Graeme Biggar, the director general of the National Crime Agency, Philp said: “There is a power in clause 21 to allow police and law enforcement, including the NCA, to access driving licence records to do a facial recognition search, which, anomalously, is currently quite difficult.
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On one hand, ugh, on the other, I can see how it would be useful, if only the police had the resources to do something with the information
How is this not a fourth amendment violation? If the government can ignore the rules the people should do the same.
How is this not a fourth amendment violation?
Because this is the UK and they don’t have a 4th amendment…
The UK doesn’t even have a written Constitution, much less one with at least 4 amendments.
They have a government with 60% parliamentary seats on 42% of votes (theirs is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, not a presidential system) who are not that far from Fascist and moving towards it (what’s in this article is far from the worst liberty-curtailing things they’ve done) only the posh education of its members give them that special posh-sounding language accent (yeah, rich people have a different unique accent over there) and posh manners and language use that so dazzles some foreigners and a certain old and undereducated slice of the locals.
In the absence of a written Constituton and now that, having left the EU, they are not bound by treaty to be members of the European Convention Of Human Rights (which, by the way, was one of the very reasons some of the current government members stated for supporting Brexit), they’re leading the country towards Fascism one step at a time (though they’re too poshly educated to do something as unseemly as actually goose-stepping)
