Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, has filmed the police on numerous facial-recognition deployments. She was there the night Shaun Thompson was picked up by police.
“My experience, observing live facial recognition for many years, [is that] most members of the public don’t really know what live facial recognition is,” she says.
She says that anyone’s face who is scanned is effectively part of a digital police line-up.
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