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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by permo-w on Thursday August 14, 2025 @07:05AM (#44899012)
the EU has literally banned facial recognition by law enforcement across the entire bloc.

HN has terrible EU Derangement Syndrome:

any time its mentioned here, suddenly there are tens of people lining up to blindly shit on it, usually for laws it hasn't actually passed, or literal anti-truths like your comment, despite the fact that it is consistently passing the best tech-focused laws of any major governmental body anywhere, and the proposed laws that everyone repeatedly loses their minds over have never once actually come to pass. even when they released the DMA and DSA, possibly the two most HN-friendly pieces of legislation of all time, half the comments were attempts at criticism, basically seemingly because people here just love to hate the EU, sans facts

Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by zosima on Thursday August 14, 2025 @07:09AM (#44899037)
> the EU has literally banned facial recognition by law enforcement across the entire bloc.

This is simply wrong:

They have banned _live_ facial recognition - and with exemptions such as e.g. for terrorism and other severe crimes, which is becoming quite broad.

They are allowing facial recognition when done after-the-fact for law enforcement. Probably also for petty crimes.

Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by permo-w on Thursday August 14, 2025 @07:28AM (#44899162)
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240308IP...

if you're going to change the central focus of your comment, do it in a reply not an edit

Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by zosima on Thursday August 14, 2025 @07:54AM (#44899324)
I edited mine after you edited yours.

Here is an article about live/post facial recognition:

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ai-facial-recognition-tec...

Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by permo-w on Thursday August 14, 2025 @08:23AM (#44899560)
I edited mine to add additional observation, leaving the central focus the same. your edit entirely changed the meaning of your comment, changing the meaning of my reply