—START—VIDEO - (1) Jamie Bartlett on Twitter: "I can’t believe what I’m seeing! While running a facial recognition pilot, one man (understandably imho) covered himself up. The police forced him to show his face (& then fined him for disorderly

Christian Wach

@ interactivist

May 15

Replying to

@JamieJBartlett

Although I agree that the story is shocking, it should perhaps be noted that it happened at the end of January

independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…
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Jamie Bartlett

@ JamieJBartlett

May 15

Replying to

@interactivist

Cheers

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Jamie Bartlett

@ JamieJBartlett

May 15

Replying to

@JamieJBartlett

If this is rolled out, there will be hundreds - probably thousands - who will do exactly what this man has done: principled refusal to comply. What will the police do then?

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Jamie Bartlett

@ JamieJBartlett

May 15

Replying to

@JamieJBartlett

And if you think this technology will be ‘objective’ or ‘neutral’ then I suggest you watch this:

pic.twitter.com/lfIjJRTUeK
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Jamie Bartlett

@ JamieJBartlett

May 15

Replying to

@BBCClick

This clip is taken from a brilliant episode of

@BBCClick

, dedicated to looking into facial recognition technology. Watch it here:

bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…
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Jamie Bartlett

@ JamieJBartlett

23h

Replying to

@geoffwhite247

(This report was done by

@geoffwhite247

- top journalist, deep web specialist too, and someone you should all follow.)

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Jamie Bartlett

@ JamieJBartlett

4h

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@JamieJBartlett

The road to our techno-hell will almost certainly be paved with innocent sounding ‘pilots’ and soundbites about ‘keeping the public safe’.

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