Revelation sparks concern among MPs and watchdogs over implications for data protection and relationship between the citizen and the state
Mark Wilding and Charles Hymas report:
Police forces have been secretly conducting hundreds of facial recognition searches using the UK’s database of 46 million British passport holders, it can be revealed.
Chris Philp, the policing minister, raised the prospect last year of officers accessing the database of passport holders so they could use facial recognition to identify suspects in all burglaries, thefts and shoplifting.
An investigation by The Telegraph and Liberty Investigates, however, has found that the practice has been taking place since at least 2019 – with searches ramping up in the months before Mr Philp’s speech on the plans at October’s Tory party conference.
Read more at The Telegraph.
h/t, Joe Cadillic