Broadside from Scotland: UK is undemocratic with biometric surveillance

Scotland's biometrics commissioner is warning the nation is moving toward autocracy and inappropriate biometric surveillance is making "democratic backsliding" easier.

Commissioner Brian Plastow has posted on the commission's site a 12-page call to arms, urging UK citizens and government officials to reject blaming legal migrants and the unhoused for social problems rather than the inaction of political leaders.

Plastow has advocated for police use of biometric surveillance. In fact, he writes, he would support live facial recognition in Scotland in …

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