Facial Recognition Smartwatches To Be Used To Monitor Foreign Offenders in UK -...
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A Home Office data protection impact assessment (DPIA) from August 2021, obtained by the charity Privacy International through a freedom of information request, assessed the impact of the smartwatch technology before contracting a supplier. In the documents, seen by the Guardian, the Home Office says the scheme will involve "daily monitoring of individuals subject to immigration control," with the requirement to wear either a fitted ankle tag or a smartwatch, carried with them at all times. Those obliged to wear the devices will need to complete periodic monitoring checks throughout the day by taking a photograph of themselves on a smartwatch, with information including their names, date of birth, nationality and photographs stored for up to six years. Locations will be tracked "24/7, allowing trail monitoring data to be recorded."
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You carry a smart phone. They already know where you are.
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They know where the phone is, but not who carries it.
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Indeed. That is why they are running this trial.
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yeah... except for the fact most people are on a contract, and had to give their name and details to get credit checked.
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Indeed. That is why they are running this trial.
After thinking it over for a bit....you may be right.
I mean, why go to the trouble and expense to do all this when they could save money and time and just send the offenders back the fuck home?
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They can be 99% certain, and that's plenty.
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Yes that is the plan. Migrants first, plebs next.
People will be praising the tory party for their tough stance on immigration and crims right up to the point that where they're forced to have their own big brother tracking smartwatch with facial recognition, and then they'll praise the government some more! -
Well their police already arrest people for sharing or retweet’s. So I don’t think they will meet much resistance.
"Because someone has been caused obviously anxiety based on your social media posts," the officer responded. "That’s why you’ve been arrested."
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Replying to undo misclicked moderation.
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>"Re:If they can do it to foreigners You're next"
I don't plan on being an illegal alien, or after committing THAT crime, committing yet another crime.
What is your alternative to this monitoring? Throwing them in jail? Wearing an ankle monitor? House arrest? Explain how this is worse... Or do you think they should be let go/free to disappear into the populous to commit more crimes?
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The UK has always had a problem with people arriving in the country and skipping out of their visas and becoming illegal immigrants.
We either have a law enforcement system with laws, surveillance and forces necessary to search them out and arrest them, or we do something like the smartwatch system proposed, or we just accept that we've lost them and create/perpetuate an underclass that is easily exploited.
Of those three choices the smartwatch, assuming it works, sounds better to me.
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Yeah, because Visa-skippers could never drop a smartwatch in a canal then vanish.
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you must have missed the surgically implanted collar with bomb bit, that goes off when you ditch the watch.
or maybe that was a movie
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If they already broke several laws getting there why on earth would you expect them to comply with this stupid smartwatch thing?
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No the proposal is for legal migrants (visa holders) that commit offenses not illegal migrants. However it remains to be seen how this would affect illegal immigrants as if they are caught committing a crime, I would think deportation would be the result.
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No the proposal is for legal migrants (visa holders) that commit offenses not illegal migrants. However it remains to be seen how this would affect illegal immigrants as if they are caught committing a crime, I would think deportation would be the result.
I fail to see why you'd not just sent the "legal" migrant back home too if they commit crimes?
They are there on your good graces anyway, but fuck up, do criminal stuff and *whisk*...you get a free flight back home.
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>"No the proposal is for legal migrants (visa holders) "
Did you get that from the article? I didn't. The words "legal migrant" and "visa" do not appear anywhere.
The word "migrant" is used, which, at least in the USA, almost always means "illegal alien." They do say "foreign-national offenders" which certainly doesn't mean legal visitors or visa-holders. They also use the words "asylum seekers" which is overwhelmingly those who have no grounds for such and often also entered illegally.
Thus the proble
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And how would this help? The proposal is for legal migrants who commit crimes while still on their visas. If someone is found to exceeded their visa then caught committing a crime, should they not be deported? How would this proposal do anything for that situation?
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While they can sound like a good idea compared to other tech, they are psychological nightmares. At random times of the day and night they will demand you check in.
* Middle of a work meeting, it buzzes and they must immediately scan their face.
* On the toilet or in the shower, it buzzes and they must immediately scan their face.
* Enjoying an intimate night with a friend, it buzzes and they must immediately scan their face.
* Middle of the night while sleeping, it buzzes and they must immediately wake up and scan their face.
Failure to check in immediately or (your phone being dead or having no reception) and it triggers all kinds of alarms and procedures designed to exclude the person from society.
They are praised for being cheaper than other methods, but in practice cause severe emotional trauma and anxiety. If given the choice stick to the ankle bracelet.
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But you open it anyway, then stick your face right down inside and inhale deeply, am I right?
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Note that this system is only to be used for convicted foreign nationals subject to Immigration control. That means people who are in the country but not considered resident, who have then been convicted of a crime. Criminal courts do not have the power to directly remove someone from the country, that requires a separate immigration hearing in a different jurisdiction. Serious crimes will affect the outcome of that hearing just as they do in the USA and many other places. Who would have thought?: If yo
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I concede that they might still get intimate moments with their "friends" in jail.
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How we choose to treat the dregs of society, the prisoners, the destitute, the beggars, the poor, says quite a lot about us and what we tolerate from public officials.
There are some people who want to treat criminals (and even those accused of crimes, sometimes even petty crimes) as less than human, as not deserving of basic human dignity or basic human rights. It is quite telling when someone is willing to inflict trauma and even torture for someone for any reason, especially when that reason is retributi
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That's the entire purpose of such checks. To remind them that they are not a full fledged member of society. It doesn't matter if they are migrants, criminals, or plebs. If they must endure such checks, they are not members of society. Period.
Working better than intended then. Once this passes, look forward to the ankle bracelet being axed as a choice due to "costs", "security", or "aging infrastructure." In reality it will be due to not having the same psychological impact as them constantly pleading tha
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Agreed. They should just keep them in jail instead of making them leave the jails where their privacy and mental heath are respected and wear this Orwellian smart watch.
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Just wondering how this would work if the person being tracked was based in an area with poor to no signal coverage of which there are many in some of the nicer parts of the UK.
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Badly. It is not new technology, and has been tried for people in the US as cheaper than ankle bracelets. They are plagued with issues.
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Courts in the UK are for the most part not fit for purpose and will let most anyone out and about.
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The UK has no population bureau, nobody in the government knows where anybody lives.
Refugees entering, illegally or not, just disappear into the mass of people.
This is a sorry attempt to be able to locate them, just cut it off and off you go to your extended family that nobody can find either.
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Deport criminals? There's no need to placate Tony Blair when you have a criminal you can help home.
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Of course we should worry about the slippery slope here. But as long as this is viewed and used as a punishment, I think it is excellent use of digital surveillance. If you commit a crime, you lose some privacy as you are put under extensive surveillance which also detters from committing more crimes.
When looking at violent crimes (in Sweden), 1% of the population committed nearly 2/3rds of all violent crimes. I would be happy to put that 1% in a digital police state to protect the more lawâabiding 99%
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Just like 3 years of prison: Why not do that, the infrastructure is already there? Remind me again, how throwing a ex-felon onto the street with no home, no car, no job, no marketable skills and no friends, ends?
While this version of day-release prevents most of those problems, it is about keeping the labour market full of people willing to do crap-work. This cyber-torture proves they don't have rights or a choice.
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