I am always amazed when the police say they have no powers to deal with Car Meets.
"‘Flutter’: The song that saved raves from a government ban"
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/flutter-the-song-that-saved-raves-from-a-government-ban/
'Section 63 granted police the powers to remove “a gathering on land in the open air of 20 or more persons… at which amplified music is played”. To crack down on the profile of rave music even further, the bill defined music as a “succession of repetitive beats.”'
Nearly 2,500 arrests in England and Wales since 2019 under Vagrancy Act | Homelessness | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/07/homeless-people-arrested-vagrancy-act-england-wales-police
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Criminal Justice Bill: Woman tells of ‘terrifying’ torment of sleeping rough from the age of 16 | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/homeless-woman-criminal-justice-bill-housing-b2506636.html
#RoughSleeping
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Domain & IP Seizures in UK’s Criminal Justice Bill Could Apply to Pirate Sites
#CriminalJusticeBill #SeriousCrimeAct #LawandPolitics #fraud #UK
Surveillance Britain: where police are quietly trying to access 50m photos for one mass lineup | Katy Watts | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/21/surveillance-britain-police-photos-facial-recognition
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#SurveillanceBritain: where #police are quietly trying to access 50m photos for one mass lineup
A sneaky provision in the #CriminalJusticeBill seeks to extend the use of deeply intrusive #FacialRecognition technology
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/21/surveillance-britain-police-photos-facial-recognition
#ToryPoliciesInAction #authoritarian #DataPrivacy #Consent
The UK #police are now looking to conduct #facialrecognition searches using a #database made up of images of the nation's 50 million driving licence holders.
Matching #biometric measurements like this is possible thanks to a clause in the new #criminaljusticebill being introduced by the government.
'... ministers worryingly silent over studies that showed the technology was prone to falsely identifying black and Asian faces.'
The police will be able to run facial recognition searches on a database containing images of Britain’s 50 million driving licence holders under a law change being quietly introduced by the government. Should the police wish to put a name to an image collected on CCTV, or shared on social media, the legislation would provide them with the powers to search driving licence records for a match. The move, contained in a single clause in a new criminal justice bill, could put every driver in the country in a permanent police lineup, according to privacy campaigners. Facial recognition searches match the biometric measurements of an identified photograph, such as that contained on driving licences, to those of an image picked up elsewhere. The intention to allow the police or the National Crime Agency (NCA) to exploit the UK’s driving licence records is not explicitly referenced in the bill or in its explanatory notes, raising criticism from leading academics that the government is “sneaking it under the radar”. Once the criminal justice bill is enacted, the …
#Police to be able to run #FaceRecognitionSearches on 50m driving licence holders
Exclusive: Privacy campaigners say clause in new #CriminalJusticeBill will put all #UK #drivers on ‘permanent #PoliceLineup’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/20/police-to-be-able-to-run-face-recognition-searches-on-50m-driving-licence-holders
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Privacy #DataProtection
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