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To be fair britain does have a crime problem and a money problem. Since it cant finance the police it could leverage the existing government owned database of p

To be fair britain does have a crime problem and a money problem. Since it cant finance the police it could leverage the existing government owned database of people’s pictures to catch criminals faster. Should look into driving license photos as well.

rcarr 3y ago
Driving license and passport photos are the same in the UK now. When you get your passport photo taken now the photo booth gives you a digital link which you put in the application. And then when you renew your driving license it uses the photo from the passport. I'm not 100% sure but I think there's an option to use another photo but I expect the vast majority will just use the passport one.
- rjh29 3y ago
  I just took a photo with my phone, so I don't have a link.
beezlewax 3y ago
You're talking about mass surveillance of the population as if it were normal. We're sleep walking into a nightmarish dystopia one piece of tech at a time.
- djohnston 3y ago
  People are openly looting businesses with impunity because of overstretched police and weak prosecution. Bring out the models.
  - DoItToMe81 3y ago
    The police have been subject to raiding of funds and budget cuts every election for the last twenty years. Rubbing salt into the wound by creating the capability for severe overreach is not the solution.
chmod775 3y ago
I'd rather have crime and money problems than a surveillance state problem.
- djohnston 3y ago
  Disagree tbh. Sick of the crime, happy to be surveilled not committing crimes.
  - chmod775 3y ago
    Most violent crimes are crimes of passion and not committed by a rational actor. Murder is most likely comitted at home. Surveillance cameras aren't going to do anything. Other crime problems - especially shoplifting - can also be solved other ways. There's no need to barter away liberty and especially not to catch a few extra shoplifters. That's making deals with Mephisto because someone stepped on your toes. In the past 100 years the UK had front-row seats to multiple surveillance states in Europe that were as bad as it gets, yet somehow refuses to learn absolutely any lesson from it. With our new technology, the new generation of surveillance state is much worse. Governments naturally accumulate power and hardly ever give it away without violence. Keeping that accumulation to a minimum trumps almost any other concern that can be solved without violence. Comments like yours, essentially saying "I'm fine with a surveillance state if it solves crime" make me lose hope. Maybe the UK going fully unhinged is a good thing. It can serve as a warning to the rest of the continent, reminding us what we have and why it is worth protecting.
    - djohnston 3y ago
      The West is degrading, we should become more like Singapore. If freedom means a bunch of junkies vomiting in Camden and organised youth gangs flash mobbing and ransacking businesses, maybe we've developed gout on our excess and need a liberty diet.
didntknowya 3y ago
leverage? as in sell out people's biometric data for profit? yea that's exactly what we were warned about

rcarr 3y ago

Driving license and passport photos are the same in the UK now. When you get your passport photo taken now the photo booth gives you a digital link which you put in the application. And then when you renew your driving license it uses the photo from the passport. I'm not 100% sure but I think there's an option to use another photo but I expect the vast majority will just use the passport one.

rjh29 3y ago
I just took a photo with my phone, so I don't have a link.

beezlewax 3y ago

You're talking about mass surveillance of the population as if it were normal. We're sleep walking into a nightmarish dystopia one piece of tech at a time.

djohnston 3y ago
People are openly looting businesses with impunity because of overstretched police and weak prosecution. Bring out the models.
- DoItToMe81 3y ago
  The police have been subject to raiding of funds and budget cuts every election for the last twenty years. Rubbing salt into the wound by creating the capability for severe overreach is not the solution.

chmod775 3y ago

I'd rather have crime and money problems than a surveillance state problem.

djohnston 3y ago
Disagree tbh. Sick of the crime, happy to be surveilled not committing crimes.
- chmod775 3y ago
  Most violent crimes are crimes of passion and not committed by a rational actor. Murder is most likely comitted at home. Surveillance cameras aren't going to do anything. Other crime problems - especially shoplifting - can also be solved other ways. There's no need to barter away liberty and especially not to catch a few extra shoplifters. That's making deals with Mephisto because someone stepped on your toes. In the past 100 years the UK had front-row seats to multiple surveillance states in Europe that were as bad as it gets, yet somehow refuses to learn absolutely any lesson from it. With our new technology, the new generation of surveillance state is much worse. Governments naturally accumulate power and hardly ever give it away without violence. Keeping that accumulation to a minimum trumps almost any other concern that can be solved without violence. Comments like yours, essentially saying "I'm fine with a surveillance state if it solves crime" make me lose hope. Maybe the UK going fully unhinged is a good thing. It can serve as a warning to the rest of the continent, reminding us what we have and why it is worth protecting.
  - djohnston 3y ago
    The West is degrading, we should become more like Singapore. If freedom means a bunch of junkies vomiting in Camden and organised youth gangs flash mobbing and ransacking businesses, maybe we've developed gout on our excess and need a liberty diet.

didntknowya 3y ago

leverage? as in sell out people's biometric data for profit? yea that's exactly what we were warned about