South Wales Police told Sky News its watchlists were proportionate and necessary, and that anyone on a watchlist was there for a specific policing purpose.According to the internal document, watchlists typically contain 500 to 700 images taken from the giant police custody bank of 450,000 photos, which is collected from sources including CCTV, bodyworn cameras and social media.
"The use of secretive watchlists, which can be filled with people who aren't suspected of wrongdoing, is one of many alarming ways in which the police disregard our rights when using this invasive mass surveillance tool," said Hannah Couchman, policy and campaigns officer at Liberty. He said:"What happened on one occasion was someone was stopped on suspicion of an offence that had been dealt with, but they still had a warrant for a lesser offence. That meant facial recognition was used for a much lower level of offence which probably wouldn't have met the proportionality test."South Wales Police has been using live facial recognition in public places since 2017.
I've got nothing to hide.
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⭕CAUGHT ON VIDEO🎞️ Blatant Tory Party antisemitism. Seen, but not reported by any UK 'news bringer' for almost FIVE months.
And is easy to do
'literally anybody' apart from those who claim that they need to cover their face for religious reasons. Time to walk around in my Darth Vader mask - then we'll see if the force is strong.
No me. Im wearing my burka when i go shopping later.
Hate to say it people, but I'm starting to envision 1984 on a global basis with facial recognition.