Facial recognition makes subtle advance in Britain

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Megan Goulding, a lawyer, said facial recognition creates concerns about “self-censorship and free expression.”

It opened an investigation and expressed concern about the increasing use of facial recognition, which allows for faces captured on camera to be compared with images stored to databases.

Privacy group Big Brother Watch has denounced the trend as an “epidemic,” with other critics warning it risks undermining fundamental rights.Ed Bridges, 36, has sued Welsh police for targeting him with this technology while he was Christmas shopping in 2017 and at a protest in 2018, with his case working its way through the High Court in Cardiff.Although the police use was authorized and advertized, the Cardiff University employee told AFP it felt like “being robbed.

“We think it’s wrong that people are made to change how they live to try to protect themselves from unwarranted police surveillance,” she added. He is appealing the decision and UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has warned it should not justify indiscriminate use of the technology.

 

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