UK online content bill could quietly enable facial recognition

Research reportedly shows that the inclusion of software as part of the UK's proposed Online Safety Bill could be used for facial recognition, a function not covered in the legislation.

The bill's stated purpose is to enable governments to get around end-to-end encryption so that they can spot and punish sending and possession illegal content, one shade of which would be child pornography.

An Imperial College London research paper concerns the use of client-side scanning (CSS), which reportedly would …

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