Concerns raised over privacy and security of UK Home Office's £842m biometrics programme An independent ethical advice group has raised concerns about the UK Home Office's £842m Biometrics programme, which will store millions of people's highly sensitive biometric data, due to go live next year. In 2017 the Home Office tasked the National DNA Database Ethics Group to expand its remit to cover the use of forensic …
... and start again down an ethical path.
This is biometrics gone mad. The very concept of linking all these systems together has only one outcome, whatever the intent. The unnecessary and unlawful monitoring of citizens going about their daily business. £842million could be better spent just by giving it to me. I'd spend it in a more beneficial way to the country by Pi****g it up the wall than the govt spending it on Biometrics.
Having seen the brilliance of Leidos in action at NATS (now that is a disaster) there is nothing to fear apart from the loss of £842 million. Then after that another £842 million...
Anonymous as I've never seen a company treat a client like a wallet as well as Leidos and I've worked in Defence for 30 years...
keep data
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"This includes images of people who haven't been charged with a crime because – unlike the UK's DNA or fingerprint databases – these images are only removed if someone requests it."
So if your mug shot is recorded on the police database without your knowledge , it will be removed upon your request
So if I dont know my mug shot is on there, I wont request its removal (and can be arrested if I vaguely look like a criminal IE head, 2 arms, 2 legs, human)
Or worse still, I can request my mug shot is removed , but then the cops go "ah ha why is he requesting we remove his mugshot unless hes done something wrong" and then they retain it anyway 'just in case' I do anything wrong (and vaguely look like a criminal IE head, 2 arms, 2 legs, human )
> If you have had your photo taken in custody you WILL know it.
Nope. I can't remember if my photo or DNA was taken. I recall my fingerprints were.
It was long enough ago, and I was rather more concerned about having been nicked for something I hadn't done, that I have little recollection of what happened when and where.
But I know for certain I'm on some database the rozzers have.
The BIGGEST problem with this story is that HMG has once again shifted the British workforce by spending our money abroad. That's millions of tax money taken from our economy so killing thousands of jobs for engineers, office builders, furniture makers, food suppliers etc etc, raising the costs of benefits and by reducing demand in the UK for developers pushing down salaries and therefore tax take. the bozos in charge here have no idea at all of basic economics, they should all go on a gcse course and learn some very basics. Their stupidity knows no bounds. How many engineers here could have done that job but are sitting at home unemployed? Lots. And that is before you remember that under American law hug have just made all our data automatically available to the nsa
@ GnuTzu
"how the hell is anyone going to keep it from being abused"
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We could try remaining in the EU?
The way things are going I would much rather trust THEM with protecting their/our citizens rights than I would the government of the UK (or any other English speaking nation) these days.
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