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If true, this is hugely welcome.
End-to-end encryption protects our personal information, from our family pics to our private messages.
The UK Govt creating a back door gives hackers and others a way in. It puts us all at risk.
End-to-end encryption must be protected
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The police are currently able to largely set their own rules on facial recognition
Any tech that can ID and track any one of us (and can make costly mistakes) must be tightly regulated to protect us as we go about our daily lives
Safeguards > more deployments
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Facial recognition isn't 'just another camera'. Its more akin to a checkpoint, having to declare your identity, having your fingerprints taken. All of that just to pop to the shop?
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It's also been five years since our legal challenge against police using this tech (which we won)
Yet facial recognition is being used even more aggressively to track and ID us all
We NEED independent oversight over this tech!
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Gov have announced this DAYS after a man was in the news talking about his experience of being misidentified by this tech
He's taking action with Big Brother Watch against the Met Police
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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We don't need more facial recognition vans on our streets
We NEED legislation to protect us all from this unregulated tech
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Liberty maintains that police should be banned from using facial recognition technology on the public.
But at the very least, we need real safeguards – strict limits on its use, independent oversight, and laws that protect all of us.
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South Wales Police – yes, the same force that lost the case in 2020 – has continued rolling out facial recognition in Cardiff, including at Six Nations matches.
The Met plans fixed cameras in Croydon and, as of July 2025, is doubling weekly live deployments across London.
Today, that same tech is being used all across the UK – more aggressively than ever.
EVERY police force in the country now uses facial recognition.
In busy public spaces – outside stadiums, train stations, shops – our faces are scanned in real-time and compared to secret watchlists.
Ed Bridges was scanned just walking down a busy street. And again at a peaceful protest.
He didn’t give consent. He didn’t even know it was happening.
Like hundreds of thousands of others, Ed was quietly added to a system that can track, identify, and record people.
FIVE YEARS since we won the world’s first legal challenge against police use of facial recognition…
the same dangerous tech is still being used.
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It’s more than two months now since the government was defeated in the Court of Appeal in its attempt to curb our right to protest. It should now be reviewing all arrests made under these unlawful powers
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We need clear safeguards on facial rec. That means proper independent oversight of how it's used, and strict rules on who is placed on a police watchlist.
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A man wrongly flagged by London’s live facial recognition tech calls it “stop and search on steroids” - and he’s taking the Met Police to court. Here’s why this legal challenge could change how we’re watched in public spaces 👇
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👁️ Technology that is capable of tracking and identifying any one of us MUST have laws governing it
That's why it's concerning that the Met police are more than DOUBLING their use of facial recognition tech
Join our campaign against this tech: action.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/page/167674/...
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👮 Met Police are doubling their use of facial recognition technology
But there has been ZERO govt oversight or laws to regulate this tech
This is a worrying expansion of police surveillance + infringes on EVERYBODY's right to privacy
news.sky.com/story/police...
Met commissioner Mark Rowley: "We’re only using it to look for serious offenders"
But this tech is being used to scan MILLIONS of people, with NO independent oversight
Gov MUST legislate to ensure our privacy rights are protected
Incredibly concerning to see such a huge expansion of facial recognition
ESPECIALLY at a time when there is complete lack of regulation regarding it's use
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Controversial technology pioneered by Palantir is being trialled by UK police
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We in the @houseoflords.parliament.uk keep asking this exact question.
Why are the police able to use this inexact very intrusive tech without independent regulations and safeguards?
The police are policing themselves on this. Very unsatisfactory.
It’s almost three months since the government was defeated in the Court of Appeal in its attempt to curb our right to protest. It should now be reviewing all arrests made under these unlawful powers
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🚨 Facial recognition tech is being rolled out at Notting Hill carnival... again
Police have historically used this tech against communities of colour and it's been known to misidentify Black people
WHY are there no govt safeguards on its use?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Read our NEW report Policing the Playground here - www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/polici...
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There is no strong evidence that police in schools improves safety. There is evidence it harms over-policed students.
Schools should be safe, supportive environments for all young people – not places of surveillance.
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It's time to rethink school safety and put young people’s wellbeing first.
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