Live facial recognition cameras may become 'commonplace' as police use soars(theguardian.com)

128 points by c-oreills 1 year ago | 101 comments

Essex police pause facial recognition camera use after study finds racial bias(theguardian.com)

17 points by Brajeshwar 7 months ago | 14 comments

London Mayor Blocks Palantir(theguardian.com)

103 points by ZiiS 5 months ago | 19 comments

Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition(theguardian.com)

40 points by Cider9986 5 months ago | 11 comments

Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to appeal against fraud conviction in FTX case(theguardian.com)

55 points by pseudolus 4 months ago | 34 comments

Palantir extends reach into British state as gets access to sensitive FCA data(theguardian.com)

179 points by chrisjj 7 months ago | 50 comments

London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces(btp.police.uk)

356 points by BlueBerry2001 2 months ago | 438 comments

British Transport Police news release about expanding its live facial recognition trial into London Underground stations; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.

Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year(techdirt.com)

481 points by beardyw 1 month ago | 197 comments

Techdirt article reporting that hackers had a live feed of every ID scanned by an identity verification company for over a year, exposing 153 million license scans.

Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers(reuters.com)

462 points by alex77456 1 year ago | 707 comments

News report that the UK government plans a mandatory digital ID, the 'Brit Card', for all adults as proof of the right to live and work, aimed at curbing illegal immigration.

The UK's war on anonymity has come to America(effort.news)

592 points by slowin 2 months ago | 635 comments

An Effort investigation reporting that UK NGOs behind Britain's digital ID and anti-anonymity laws are lobbying US state legislatures to adopt similar rules.

Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today(adguard-dns.io)

1714 points by immibis 11 months ago | 426 comments

AdGuard DNS blog post investigating suspicious complaints and bailiff demands pressuring it to block Archive.today amid an FBI subpoena of the site's registrar.

Police relied on Clearview AI and put the wrong person in jail(nytimes.com)

419 points by danso 3 years ago | 108 comments

New York Times article about police relying on Clearview AI facial recognition that led to the wrongful jailing of an innocent person.