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UK’s first use of city-wide facial recognition in Cardiff
(bigbrotherwatch.org.uk)
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Has the UK always been so dystopian or is this a new thing and if so why? Crime can’t be worse than the US.
Brit here. It's always been like this, at least for my whole lifetime. I remember in the 90s they were trying to get biometric ID cards going with people's fingerprints and retina scans on them, and the government has been pretty consistent with trying to undermine encryption, harvest everyone's metadata etc. Best I can tell, we seem to be the testing ground for any Orwellian nonsense that gets dreamed up, before it gets shipped out to the States and other places.
Seems like they’re by far the worst in Europe, and maybe even worse than USA
In terms of dystopian government overreach or crime rate? Because the crime rate is surely not the worst. The overreach tho is pretty bad. They constantly try to break encryption, they try to force people to ID themselves for online services, incarcerate peaceful protesters for years, etc.
Assange is a great example of how fucking horrible their government can be.
Millions of cameras everywhere. It's been like it for years now...
I suppose there’s a reason a Brit wrote 1984?