I was asked by the Times to comment on an investigation which revealed that police are using facial recognition to track children as young as 12:
“This was the predictable consequence of rolling out a dangerous technology without safeguards.”
“There isn’t public consent for police using these mass surveillance tools for exactly this reason.”
“The use of facial recognition is a regulatory wild west. If the government does not take urgent action to protect the public by restricting its use, they will erode trust and enable authoritarian infrastructure to be built that is clearly open to abuse.”
Read the story online here (paywall)
