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Suffolk Constabulary · · International · Surveillance & Civil Liberties

Suffolk Constabulary in the UK is deploying facial recognition technology as part of its public safety operations. The force has framed the use of the technology around keeping people safe.

Why this matters: Facial recognition in the hands of local police is not a neutral tool. It scans faces in public spaces, often without people knowing, and matches them against databases they have no knowledge of and no way to challenge. Suffolk residents did not opt into this. The framing around 'keeping people safe' is doing a lot of work here. The real questions are which database is being used, what happens when there is a false match, and what oversight exists beyond the force policing itself.

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