#Facialrecognition #ICE #surveillance –
„This may be another reason so many immigration officers are masked while on duty: They know better than we do what it means to show one’s face. In Minneapolis and elsewhere, agents now carry tools of surveillance into the field, just as they do their guns.“ David Wallace-Wells
"The white paper’s technological programme is equally revealing. It commits more than £140 million over three years for “Police.AI” (a new National Centre for AI in Policing), the rollout of 40 additional Live Facial Recognition vans, and a bespoke legal framework to normalise #FacialRecognition nationwide. This is coupled with plans to create a single national database for policing information."
"Liberty described the expansion of #FacialRecognition as “one of the most significant threats to #CivilLiberties in the history of British #policing.” The white paper institutionalises this infrastructure, transforming extraordinary #surveillance measures into a permanent feature of everyday policing."
" #Labour's whitepaper outlines a qualitative restructuring of the repressive apparatus of the capitalist state, aimed at centralising command, expanding #surveillance, and enhancing the capacity to suppress social and political opposition. Far from a technocratic reform, it constitutes a strategic preparation for intensified state repression against an emerging movement of the working class."
"Liberty described the expansion of #FacialRecognition as “one of the most significant threats to #CivilLiberties in the history of British #policing.” The white paper institutionalises this infrastructure, transforming extraordinary #surveillance measures into a permanent feature of everyday policing."
"The timing and content of these reforms can only be understood in the context of the global crisis of #capitalism, marked by economic decline, deepening social #inequality, escalating imperialist conflict, and a resurgence of working-class struggle internationally. The ruling class confronts growing hostility, to worsening social conditions, Britain’s support for #Israel’s genocide in #Gaza and the costs of militarisation."
"The white paper’s technological programme is equally revealing. It commits more than £140 million over three years for “Police.AI” (a new National Centre for AI in Policing), the rollout of 40 additional Live Facial Recognition vans, and a bespoke legal framework to normalise #FacialRecognition nationwide. This is coupled with plans to create a single national database for policing information."
How #ICE Already Knows Who #Minneapolis #Protesters Are
ICE uses two #facialrecognition programs one made #tech company #ClearviewAI and #MobileFortify. ICE is also using #cellphone and #socialmedia tools to monitor people’s activity and hack into phones. Agents are tapping into database, built by #Palantir, combines government and commercial data to identify real-time locations for individuals they are pursuing, current and former officials said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html
https://archive.ph/A32Ao
How #ICE Already Knows Who #Minneapolis #Protesters Are
ICE uses two #facialrecognition programs one made #tech company #ClearviewAI and #MobileFortify. ICE is also using #cellphone and #socialmedia tools to monitor people’s activity and hack into phones. Agents are tapping into database, built by #Palantir, combines government and commercial data to identify real-time locations for individuals they are pursuing, current and former officials said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html
https://archive.ph/A32Ao
"The United Kingdom’s controversial rollout of #FacialRecognition technology will rely on software that appears to have already been deployed in #Gaza, where it is used by the Israeli army to track, trace, and abduct thousands of Palestinian civilians passing through checkpoints."
"The United Kingdom’s controversial rollout of #FacialRecognition technology will rely on software that appears to have already been deployed in #Gaza, where it is used by the Israeli army to track, trace, and abduct thousands of Palestinian civilians passing through checkpoints."
I love the name for this: computer vision dazzle.
I love the name for this: computer vision dazzle.
Wegmans defends use of #FacialRecognition at #NYC stores, citing 'elevated risk’
https://gothamist.com/news/wegmans-defends-use-of-facial-recognition-at-nyc-stores-citing-elevated-risk
> The supermarket’s facial recognition system is used to identify people who “have been previously flagged for misconduct,” a spokesperson said.
A Home Office study by on the facial recognition system used by UK police forces has found that it is significantly less reliable with certain ethnic groups and genders.
🇪🇺 vs 🇬🇧 — Two approaches to facial recognition
EU AI Act (Aug 2026):
Bans real-time facial recognition in public spaces, except narrow law enforcement cases.
UK (Dec 2025):
Expanding police facial recognition vans to more cities while consulting on regulation.
EU: privacy by default.
UK: surveillance first, regulation later.
Facial recognition not only harms people right now, but feeds into’ crime-predicting’ tech that turbo charges existing bias.
Sign our petition to ban Predictive Policing in the UK to push back on this dystopian vision of a fully monitored Pre-Crime future.
Act now ⬇️
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ban-crime-predicting-police-tech
#facialrecognition #surveillance #policing #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol #precrime #bancrimepredictingtech #safetynotsurveillance #predictivepolicing
Facial recognition is biased. The police know it. The UK Home Office knows it. And they don't care.
This dangerous, intrusive tech produces more false positives for women, young people and members of ethnic minority groups.
We need Parliamentary scrutiny now!
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/10/police-facial-recognition-technology-bias
#facialrecognition #surveillance #policing #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol #safetynotsurveillance
#Amazon’s #Ring rolls out controversial, #AI-powered #FacialRecognition feature to video doorbells
#Amazon’s #Ring rolls out controversial, #AI-powered #FacialRecognition feature to video doorbells
Facial recognition not only harms people right now, but feeds into’ crime-predicting’ tech that turbo charges existing bias.
Sign our petition to ban Predictive Policing in the UK to push back on this dystopian vision of a fully monitored Pre-Crime future.
Act now ⬇️
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ban-crime-predicting-police-tech
#facialrecognition #surveillance #policing #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol #precrime #bancrimepredictingtech #safetynotsurveillance #predictivepolicing
