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Revealed: “Skyrocketing” scale of UK police's Secret Facial Recognition Searches of Passport and Immigration Databases (bigbrotherwatch.org.uk)

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The Government has secretly allowed police forces to search over 150 million UK passport and immigration database photos with “Orwellian” facial recognition technology for 6 years.

The number of searches of the passport database has “skyrocketed” from 2 in 2020 to 417 in 2023. 16 searches of the immigration database were made in 2023, increasing almost sevenfold to 102 in 2024.

Campaigners to institute legal action, claiming it is an “historic breach of the right to privacy”.

Former minister Sir David Davis MP says “It’s outrageous that parliamentarians and the public have been kept in the dark about this extraordinary surveillance system”.

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

So, on average, every adult in the UK has been searched for 3 times.