We don’t want UK drivers in a permanent police lineup, but AI can stop serious crime | Asress Adimi Gikay

With the right safeguards in place, the police's use of AI can make us safer without violating our privacy

Privacy campaigners have long considered the UK an outlier among democracies for its stance on facial recognition technology, since we allow the police to regularly deploy it in public spaces. Further concerns were raised last week when it emerged that the new criminal justice bill could allow the police to use the technology to run a search on millions of driving licence holders.

Campaigners have argued that the bill puts all UK drivers on a permanent police lineup". A day later the Times reported on the growing call by the government for the police to adopt the technology nationwide.

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