Jo Farrell, the chief constable of Police Scotland, has said that she supports the implementation of facial recognition technology to track down and apprehend violent criminals. Farrell made the comments at a press conference in which she outlined her vision for the future of law enforcement in Scotland, highlighting its potential to enhance crime-fighting capabilities and ensure public safety. She also stressed the need for ethical and unbiased use of the technology and that it would be subject to external scrutiny.
In comments given to The Times, Jake Hurfurt, head of research and investigations at Big Brother Watch (BBW), said: "We are sleepwalking into a high-tech police state." He went on to say that "Britain needs to have a proper conversation about the role big data and AI plays in our policing, rather than allowing governments and the police to cobble together patchwork legal justifications to experiment on the public with intrusive and Orwellian technology."
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