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Starmer’s live facial recognition plan would usher in national ID, campaigners say (www.theguardian.com)
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"Civil liberties campaigners have said that a proposal made by Keir Starmer on Thursday to expand the use of live facial recognition technology would amount to the effective introduction of a national ID card system based on people’s faces.

Silkie Carlo, the director of Big Brother Watch, said it was ironic the new prime minister was suggesting a greater use of facial matching on the same day that an EU-wide law largely banning real-time surveillance technology came into force..."

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[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago (9 children)

This is a completely honest question from a random Finn, but what are the issues that some people see with national IDs? I'm so used to having some sort of a national ID card (although I've forgotten to renew mine; they're not mandatory here) that it really didn't even occur to me that they could be a contentious issue in the UK. I've seen Americans rail against them before, but I sort of assumed they're pretty standard all around Europe – when I had mine I used it for traveling in the Schengen zone, since it's essentially as good as a passport

[–] gytrash@feddit.uk 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not against the introduction of ID, in fact it'd probably make life easier for people who don't drive or have a passport! And I can't see why the campaigners think it'd automatically lead to the introduction of ID cards. Having said that, I'm also not in favour of public surveillance on a massive scale.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

Oh yes just to clarify, I didn't think that you specifically have a problem with a potential national ID system, I was just wondering what the people who do see it as a problem have against it

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