“Individuals who do not trigger an alert have their image and biometric data deleted immediately which is irretrievable"

“This is a function that has been built into the software which has been tested independently by the National Physics Laboratory. We would like to reassure the public that the data is irretrievable once deleted.”

Why would a governmental agency responsible for measurements and standards be put in charge of verifying cybersecurity functionality??

Also what about false positives? Do those innocent people get their data stored? And for how long?

There's something extremely unsettling about the police being able to issue an arrest warrant on anyone and then use surveillance to arrest them anywhere. I can hear bootlickers already saying "don't commit crimes and you're fine" but I wonder if they would have used the same argument against the suffragettes...