Somehow this week I missed that the Home Office is preparing to rollout extended facial recognition surveillance at transport hubs & around public events, justified by a 'clampdown' on (so-called) 'illegal migrants'.
As usual, a focussed (non?) issue is being used to justify a much wider threat to privacy & justice.
Once again Labour is demonstrating it is a threat to democracy & remains wedded to the idea of the 'hostile environment' for migrants.
#politics #surveillance
h/t Observer
@ChrisMayLA6 Just like in the US everyone had to give up liberty in the name of the War on Terror, in the UK we all have to submit to the surveillance state ever more to fight so-called illegal immigration.
We bore the change to giving your passport to anyone managing to act as a landlord to check you could rent, to an employer so you could work, and now this. But if it's packaged as something being done to the cultural scapegoat du jour, people will roll over and accept their own freedom being eroded