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🚨 The UK Crime and Policing Bill will create a vast facial recognition database of over 55 million driving licences and ban face coverings at protest 👁️

This would be the biggest biometric database ever created in the UK for policing.

With other rights groups, we're telling politicians to stop the expansion of police surveillance powers 🚫

Read the joint briefing ⬇️

#SafetyNotSurveillance

#policing #crimeandpolicingbill #facialrecognition #surveillance #police #ukpolitics #ukpol #protest

Joint briefing on Clauses 95 and 86 of the Crime and Policing Bill for Second Reading As privacy and justice civil society organisations, we are deeply concerned that Clause 95 of the Crime and Policing Bill will allow for the creation of a vast police facial recognition database of driving licences. This is a huge, disproportionate expansion of police surveillance powers that will place the majority of Britons in a digital police line-up without their consent. The DVLA holds the data of over 55 million driving licences. If passed, Clause 95 could enable these facial images to be subverted into one of the biggest biometric database ever created in the UK for police access. We are also concerned by powers contained within Clause 86, which prohibit “wearing or otherwise using an item that conceals their identity” at protests. These powers put the public’s ability to protest safely and freely at grave risk, especially given increased police deployment of both live and retrospective facial recognition.

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Joint briefing on Clauses 95 and 86 of the Crime and Policing Bill for Second Reading

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Predictive policing is UNJUST.

It tramples on the presumption of innocence to reproduce existing discrimination.

With 16 other civil society groups, we say:

BAN biometric surveillance and the use of AI to ‘predict’ crime.

#SafetyNotSurveillance

Read our open letter ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/app/uploads/2024/07/SafetyNotSurveillance-open-letter-Jul-24.pdf

#AI #PreCrime #policing #humanrights #justice #ukpolitics

Open Letter to the Home Secretary: Protect people's rights and safeguard against the harms of AI systems in policing. 17 civil society groups call for #SafetyNotSurveillance

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