PM accused of ignoring civil rights and aping autocracies as he proposes new
powers after far-right unrest
Civil liberties campaigners have said that a proposal made by Keir Starmer on
Thursday to expand the use of live facial recognition technology would amount to
the effective introduction of a national ID card system based on people’s faces.
Silkie Carlo, the director of Big Brother Watch, said it was ironic the new
prime minister was suggesting a greater use of facial matching on the same day
that an EU-wide law largely banning real-time surveillance technology came into
force.
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Tag - Surveillance
Officials seized documents from NSO Group to try to stop handover of information
about notorious hacking tool, files suggest
The Israeli government took extraordinary measures to frustrate a high-stakes US
lawsuit that threatened to reveal closely guarded secrets about one of the
world’s most notorious hacking tools, leaked files suggest.
Israeli officials seized documents about Pegasus spyware from its manufacturer,
NSO Group, in an effort to prevent the company from being able to comply with
demands made by WhatsApp in a US court to hand over information about the
invasive technology.
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