All police forces to get facial recognition, pray for
@Sucky
More seriously though for those that think we have nothing to worry about with this technology, some research shows there's a similar technology under a different name that ICE are using in Minnesota to identify their potential targets - they actually break normal protocal by using their own mobile phones, with an app that's called Mobile Fortify.
While we seem readily happy to sleep walk into allowing this technology 'for our own safety', America has shown the more sinister side of it's use...
en.wikipedia.org
ICE has stated that they will not allow people to decline to be scanned by Mobile Fortify, and that photos taken, even those of U.S. citizens, will be stored for 15 years, something that has been criticized primarily because ICE has not performed a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) for Mobile Fortify, the right to decline other forms of biometric verification to the U.S. government is often available under other circumstances, and the 15 year window is viewed as unnecessarily large.
But everything is fine people, nothing to worry about.
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AI Overview
Yes, facial recognition used by law enforcement in the UK, specifically
Operator-Initiated Facial Recognition (OIFR), is very similar in function to the
Mobile Fortify app used by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Both technologies allow officers to take a photo with a handheld device (smartphone) in the field to identify individuals against a database of suspects or records.