UK’s first use of city-wide facial recognition in Cardiff (bigbrotherwatch.org.uk)

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Embedding facial recognition surveillance in a city-wide CCTV network represents a shocking expansion of police surveillance, and turns Cardiff into an Orwellian zone of biometric surveillance. This unprecedented use of the technology could pave the way for the mass rollout of permanent facial recognition surveillance across the UK. Live facial recognition technology turns us into walking barcodes and makes us a nation of suspects. This network of facial recognition cameras will make it impossible for Cardiff residents and visitors to opt-out of a biometric police identity check.

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[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

I guarantee the majority of people will be OK with this too.

I wonder if putting on facepaint would fuck up the facial recognition? Also, I lived in Cardiff and South Wales for a while and the atmosphere during the Six Nations was great, I don't recall there ever being any issues. Not sure if that's changed over the recent years as an excuse for the city to deploy this tech, but it seems kind of odd that they'd need this.

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