by Arthur Foxake, 28 December 2025
The UK's socalist government, having for the moment backed off plans to make digital ID mandatory for access to government servives, has revealed its plans for ramping up total surveillance as a weapon in its war on the people as a consultation on how forces should use facial recognition and biometrics, purportedly to ensure police will be better equipped to track down dangerous criminals. Supporters of technofascist authoritarianism claim this could become ‘the biggest breakthrough since DNA matching’ according to information published on the official uk government website.
Facial recognition, although notoriously inaccurate and ridiculously easy to circumvent, will, according to the plan, be used to locate wanted suspects in public places, find vulnerable missing people and identify offenders more quickly through footage obtained from CCTV and doorbell cameras. Authoritarian parties in government are desperately eager to introduce this flawed technology despite tech. experts having called for facial recognition technology to be banned due to abysmal results in independent testing of its accuracy.
In the last 2 years, the Metropolitan Police claim to have made 1,300 arrests using facial recognition including rapists, domestic abusers and violent criminals and found more than 100 registered sex offenders breaching their license conditions.
The consultation will pave the way for new laws so all police forces can use this new technology with greater confidence and more often. However the figures quoted are vague and while they highlight the low number of arrests made on falsely positive identifications, mention of the number of people questioned but not arrested by police (a disturbing experience for many law abiding citizens,) due to false identification by the technology is carefully avoided.
Facial recognition has so far been used by eight police forces in England and Wales to find wanted suspects and vulnerable people, as well as monitoring live events, since 2017.
Officials say the technology is needed to help catch serious offenders which could be interpreted as an admission of incompetence. Civil rights groups certainly think so and are concerned the technology is too invasive and may have racial biases as well as facilitating gross violations of the right to privacy.
The public consultation could lead to new legislation on how and when police could use facial recognition technology. Currently, they can use three types for specific purposes.
The Home Office says that while there is a legal framework for police to use facial recognition technology, this "does not give the police sufficient confidence to use it at significantly greater scale".
It has not made clear what situations it was considering
It's not just this present government, but reflective of a TREND towards authorities wanting to take control. It's insidious, really. But we can also blame the press and media in general as well for creating an atmosphere of panic by endlessly singling out circumstances that create public alarm for no other reason than to sell papers/advertising. If you go back over the past 40 years or so, there was panic over “video nasties" so that brought in legislation; there was panic over dangerous dogs, so they brought in legislation. This panic, I am reliably informed, was generated by non-stop press coverage whereby journalists were actively LOOKING for stories to generate a public outcry. A more recent “intervention" has been the introduction of the so-called “online safety bill" which proposes banning some grops for using internet technoloy such as social media, as well as “compulsory ID.”
While outrage at one level might seem so legitimate, something far more insidious has been underway for a long time: the erosion of civil rights and liberties paving the way, as now, for the the implementation of facial recognition technology.
Perhaps often accuse us Boggart Bloggers of being conspiracy theorists, but world weary old gits like us did not get this far through our lives without being able to smell the big fat rat in all of this: Governments exploiting people's FEARS in order to gain more control over their lives.
There has to be a balance between surveillance and civil liberties. The police say that the facial recognition system compares the captured images against a database of wanted people and those with specific restrictions like Sexual Risk Orders. Images captured where the person isn't on the database are wiped within a few milliseconds. They also say the system is audited by outside agencies to ensure they comply. Obviously there will be those of us who distrust anything government tells us nd have learned from previous experiences of independent regulators that such assurances are a load of bollocks.
However the greater and more immediate concern for all of us should be about the CCTV in the local corner shop and my neighbour's doorbell being hooked up to the networks of parasitic corporations like Met, Google and Apple, you can be absolutely certain those don't comply with the regulations.
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