The UK is quickly deploying surveillance state technology that people once decried China for. Whether or not this is ethical or useful, I wish the hypocrisy would be acknowledged. The OSA, the Apple encryption demands, LFR, …, it’s clearly a trend. Has society really become this dangerous that we must deploy these things?

The UK is broke but has infinite money for a surveillance state.

This should help to crack down on the unacceptable social media posts by Brits who insist on making racist comments about children being raped by gangs of migrant men. There is absolutely no room for racism. If thousands of children must be assaulted to make that possible, that's a price I'm willing to pay as a proud Englishman who recognises the value and vibrancy of diversity (especially the food!).

> Various privacy considerations are made with each LFR deployment in the UK, the cops say. These include notifying the public about when, where, and for how long LFR will be used in a given area, allowing them to exercise their right not to be captured by the technology.

Are they trying to normalize wearing masks, helmets, burkas and balaclavas everywhere?

Orwell was way too kind.

They don't trust the people they are allowing into the country while allowing them into the country.

> The government also insists the tech is independently tested at the National Physical Laboratory, which found the underlying algorithm to be accurate and free of age, gender, or ethnicity-related bias.

I feel so much better! /sarcasm

How tone deaf can they be?

Whenever there are serious privacy concerns about how this sort of technology, you have a statement like attached. It doesn't address what people are worried about. They pretend it is a non-issue.