🚨 With the 'click of one button' the UK passport database becomes a criminal database 🚨

Plugging biometric data gathered for the purpose of passport control into an expanding system of facial recognition is a game-changer.

This brazen abuse of power will destroy privacy safeguards and the presumption of innocence, with everyone fair game in a vast, unfettered police surveillance network.

All without public consultation or scrutiny.

#privacy #surveillance #ukpolitics 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/02/uk-passport-images-database-could-be-used-to-catch-shoplifters