Croydon MP promises new laws for Live Facial Recognition
A Member of Parliament representing Croydon has pledged to pursue new legislation governing the use of live facial recognition technology. No further details about the proposed laws or a timeline have been disclosed.
Why this matters: Live facial recognition in public spaces means your face becomes a tracking token every time you walk past a camera. Right now in the UK, police use it with thin legal cover and almost no statutory rules around how long data is kept, who gets flagged, or what happens when the system is wrong. A law could fix that. It could also just codify current practice and call it accountability. The difference matters enormously to anyone who has ever been misidentified, or who simply wants to move through a city without being logged.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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