• akakunai@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    That’s where you guys draw the line? With automated facial recognition vans, CCTV everywhere, among other things, the UK is certainly not a country that comes to mind when I think “civil liberties and privacy”.

    • then_three_more@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      To be fair when they say recently they mean about 20 years ago. It was the Blair government that were looking to do this when I was at school in the early 2000s.