John Oliver on police use of facial recognition: 'We’re about to cross a major line'

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The Last Week Tonight host tracks the chilling expansion of facial recognition technology in the US by law enforcement and the need for regulation

John Oliver returned to the white void of at-home Last Week Tonight on Sunday with a report on facial recognition, a technology which has been around for years but whose use by law enforcement has come under renewed scrutiny as protests against anti-black racism and police brutality continue across the US.

 

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These tools in the right hands make us safer and help respond to the massive population and complexity we have now. In the wrong hands, yes an abuse. Fix the root cause by removing self interest from government and support community. We all need to give a bit.

You can see he's had plastic surgery so the cameras don't recognise him.

It's called following china's lead and abandoning democracy for a police state.

No surprise here that the Met has already fallen down the rabbit hole.

I think it was crossed already, just isn't made public info yet

'They' already have on file our fingerprints, eye scanners, dental records, video cams, drones... Welcome to the Age of Digital Cocaine. They just cant get enough.....

Already deployed by London metropolitan, despite being hugely unpopular

He isn't wrong. Though I fear we crossed that line some time ago

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