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Police believe live facial recognition cameras may become “commonplace” in England and Wales, according to internal documents, with the number of faces scanned having doubled to nearly 5m in the last year.

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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 23 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

every police officer in the UK should shove up their cameras into their own asses. literal china developing over there for quite a few years now.

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

I’m immune compromised. I wear an N95 mask whenever I go out. Sometimes to change things up, I’ll draw a smiley (or other) mouth on it with felt tip markers. Just need to work out how to disguise everything above the mask in a way that doesn’t look like a deliberate disguise.

[–] meejle@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Drink once if they ban face coverings because of this.

Drink twice if they somehow link it to hijabs and burqas in a skewed bid to "win back Reform voters".

Down your drink if they fuck up and do it around the time of the next pandemic.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago

Time for assassin's creed hoods.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Perhaps balaclavas will become common place in response, at least in public places.

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 weeks ago

Definitely don't want to be painting my face every day 😜

[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 3 points 4 weeks ago

Hoodie, snoo type thing, and an electric bike are standard uniform at this point.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago

Get some Trump/Vance masks?