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Wales Police Begin Using a Facial-Recognition Phone App


"There are concerns human rights will be breached," reports the BBC, as Wales police forces launch a facial-recognition app that "will allow officers to use their phones to confirm someone's identity." The app, known as Operator Initiated Facial Recognition (OIFR), has already been tested by 70 of...

"There are concerns human rights will be breached," reports the BBC, as Wales police forces launch a facial-recognition app that "will allow officers to use their phones to confirm someone's identity." Police said its use on unconscious or dead people would help officers to identify them promptly so their family can be reached with care and compassion. "In Britain, none of us has to identify ourselves to police without very good reason but this unregulated surveillance tech threatens to take that fundamental right away."

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