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FLASH flash@primal.net 1 week ago
⚡🇬🇧 NEW - UK Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood: "A hundred years ago, fingerprinting was decried as curtailing our civil liberties, but today we could not imagine policing without it. I have no doubt the same will prove true of facial recognition technology in the years to come."

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Lunapilot Lunapilot@ditto.pub 1 week ago
Fingerprints were the thin edge of the wedge but the State only has your fingerprints if you have been arrested or worse. Facial recognition is pre-crime - you are part of the system long before the crime happens... The UK government is doing a lot of things that treat us as criminals - assumed to be guilty not innocent before the law. This is getting very dangerous for freedom and democracy.
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