Home Office has ‘questions to answer’ over facial recognition stance

The paper reports that Mr Philp would also “consider a speech to bring the benefits of FR [facial recognition] to the fore”. “The Home Office must urgently answer questions about this meeting, which appears to have led officials to lean on the ICO in order to favour a firm that sells highly invasive facial recognition technology. “Live facial recognition is an authoritarian mass surveillance tool that turns the public into walking ID cards,” he said. The Home Office said that facial recognition technologies could be beneficial. “New technologies, like facial recognition, can help businesses to protect their customers, staff and stock by actively managing shoplifting and crime.”