The UK’s policing minister has pushed for facial recognition to be rolled out across police forces nationally in a move that would ignore critics who claim the technology is inaccurate and some of its applications illegal.
According to a report to be submitted to parliament on Tuesday, the Home Office briefed the biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner during closed-door meetings on Chris Philp’s desire to expand the use of the controversial systems by law enforcement.
Any such move by Philp, who was appointed minister of state for crime, policing and fire by prime minister Rishi Sunak last October, is likely to be divisive.
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