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Message   VRSS    All   UK Secretly Allows Facial Recognition Scans of Passport, Immigra   August 8, 2025
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Title: UK Secretly Allows Facial Recognition Scans of Passport, Immigration
Databases

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/08/1458...

An anonymous reader shares a report: Privacy groups report a surge in UK
police facial recognition scans of databases secretly stocked with passport
photos lacking parliamentary oversight. Big Brother Watch says the UK
government has allowed images from the country's passport and immigration
databases to be made available to facial recognition systems, without
informing the public or parliament. The group claims the passport database
contains around 58 million headshots of Brits, plus a further 92 million made
available from sources such as the immigration database, visa applications,
and more. By way of comparison, the Police National Database contains circa
20 million photos of those who have been arrested by, or are at least of
interest to, the police.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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