—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

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

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Cheers

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

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This clip is taken from a brilliant episode of

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

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(This report was done by

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

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