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The tech companies scanning your face while you shop (www.telegraph.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by abobla@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Madeleine Stone, of the campaign group Big Brother Watch, is concerned about the slow creep of facial recognition technology.

“It is unacceptable to have police and private companies writing their own rules on the use of such a powerful surveillance technology,” she says. “We urgently need a democratic, lawful approach to the role of facial biometrics in Britain, but so far there hasn’t even been a parliamentary debate on it.”

Glad they devoted 3 whole sentences about this more than halfway down the article /s

Also, no mention of machine learning training bias or false positive rates of the existing technology? There's so much which could have been fleshed out in this article.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

but so far there hasn’t even been a parliamentary debate on it.

Because the longer they take to legislate it, the more intrusive they can permanently be.