The Home Office has permitted police to run facial recognition scans against images held in the UK’s passport and immigration databases without notifying Parliament or the public, say privacy campaigners.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/uk-police-secretly-use-passport-photos-in-facial-recognition

#uk #ukpol #bigbrotherwatch #passport #technews #facialrecognition #privacy

Passport photographs added to police facial recognition databases - without telling anyone and with no parliamentary oversight

But I suppose those who advocate ‘if you have nothing to hide..’ will be cheering from the rafters.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/08/uk_secretly_allows_facial_recognition/

#Passports #FacialRecognition #Uk #Police #BigBrotherWatch #PrivacyInternational #Unlawful #Impunity #Transparency

🚨 #IcelandFoods, STOP spying on customers with live facial recognition cameras.

I will no longer shop at Iceland if you continue to use this rights-abusive surveillance tech #icelandrichard.

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-coverage/the-grocer-iceland-trials-intrusive-facial-recognition-technology/

#StopIcelandSpying | #BigBrotherWatch

What do people think about UK shops introducing facial recognition. They put up a little notice by the door which noone reads so its not really consensual. Furthermore it is essentially saying that everyone is guilty until proven innocent which is not really our tradition of innocent until proven guilty. #BigBrotherWatch seem to be doing excellent work to resist this anti-human nonsense.

@BigBrotherWatch

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press-releases/big-brother-watch-condemns-icelands-facial-recognition-rollout/

"Asda secretly scanning customers' faces - Don’t shop there until you watch this..."

#Asda #FacialRecognition #BigBrotherWatch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FBRUdqZvIQ

Inside the secret surveillance operation on WikiLeaks | Interview with editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson by Rebecca Vincent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RP_p89rI6E

#Wikileaks #Assange #privacy #surveillance #BigBrotherWatch

“Zero arrests! Proves it’s working, doesn’t it?” | Big Brother Watch

Public facial recognition is one of those things where they are going to demand we nerd harder until some value proposition is established. Quote:

162680 faces scanned. 0 arrests. THIS is the reality of South Wales Police’s ‘live facial recognition zone’ spanning a whole city-centre.

https://twitter.com/BigBrotherWatch/status/1902407452856877079

#bigBrotherWatch #facialRecognition #surveillance #wales