UK passport images database could be used to catch shoplifters

Civil liberty campaigners warn Chris Philp’s plans to integrate databases are an ‘Orwellian nightmare’

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Theres like a bazillion movies, books and games telling us why overarching surveillance is a bad thing.
- Oh, don't worry, it's only bad for the common people so that doesn't count.
- There's plenty of real life examples of why overarching surveillance is a bad thing. The Stasi, the Gestapo, the Chinese social credit system, the myriad of Western domestic spying programs revealed by whistleblowers.

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