UK Immigration Enforcement will be able to deploy live facial recognition (LFR) technology outside of border zones to look for people who have never committed a criminal offence, prompting concern from digital rights groups about surveillance overreach.
It also covers joint deployments with police forces, allowing Immigration Enforcement to supply watchlists for police facial recognition systems, or otherwise process police-supplied data through its own systems.
“It is shocking to see the Home Office quietly set itself up for yet another massive expansion of facial recognition use in this country.
What will happen when an algorithm malfunction or dodgy Home Office data leads to someone being wrongly accused of breaching immigration rules?
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