Britain’s mass facial recognition roll-out alarms rights groups

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The police said their objective was to identify and intercept wanted individuals by scanning faces in large crowds and comparing them with thousands of suspects already in the police database.

When a person on a police “watch list” passes near the cameras, the artificial intelligence-powered system, often set up in a police van, triggers an alert. The suspect can then be immediately detained once police checks confirm their identity.

But such mass data capture on the streets of London,...“treats us like a nation of suspects”....“There is no legislative basis, so we have no safeguards to protect our rights, and the police is left to write its own rules

accusing him of “unfairly targeting” the Afro-Caribbean community while highlighting the racial biases of AI. Londoner Shaun Thompson, a 39-year-old black man, said he was arrested after being wrongly identified as a criminal by one of these cameras

Qns:

1. Evaluate the measures taken in your society to deter crime and punish criminals? (Cam. 2024)

2. To what extent has technology had an impact on both privacy and security in your country? (Cam. 2009)