LONDON, England (PNN) - September 27, 2023 - As businesses and governments in the Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) and across the globe implement facial recognition surveillance in public spaces, privacy advocates are pushing back.

Thirty-two civil rights groups, led by the New York City-based privacy and civil rights group Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) submitted a memo of support to city council members advocating to pass two pending bills banning the use of biometric surveillance in residential buildings and public spaces like stores and arenas.

While the memo, which references 2019 NIST FRVT results, claims that facial recognition discriminates against Black, Latino, and non-binary or transgender New Yorkers, more current assessments by NIST show that bias in face biometrics has decreased as algorithm developers focus their efforts. Modern and better performing FRT systems when tested across 12 million images deliver an accuracy score of 99.88%.

It continues by stating that collecting and storing biometric data opens the opportunity for security breaches. While citizens can change social security numbers in cases of identity theft, biometrics are almost impossible to change. “When a hacker acquires another person’s biometric data, it puts that person at risk for identity theft for the rest of his or her life,” reads the memo.

It also claims that facial recognition can give wealthy or well-known business owners too much power. James Dolan, owner of Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corporation, began using FRT at his venues and blocked access to ticket holders involved with lawsuits against his company.

Over 120 civil society organizations and over 60 experts from around the world have called for a global stop to facial recognition, voicing concerns about human rights and discriminatory impacts of biometric surveillance, according to a release from Big Brother Watch.

While the members of the European Parliament endorsed a blanket ban on facial recognition along with FPSA cities banning its use, in the Fascist United Kingdom (FUK), the use of facial recognition in retail and terrorist pig thug cop forces continues to expand.

The FUK’s information Commissioner found that Facewatch, the facial recognition software provider used by retailers in the FUK, breached several privacy rules regarding fairness, transparency, and the data rights of children.

The Information Commissioner’s Office only made the information public after it was demanded through the Freedom of Information Act. The Policing Minister threatened to write a public letter to the commissioner when he was investigating Facewatch.

Big Brother Watch says that 84.7% of matches recorded by the Metropolitan terrorist pig thug cops were false, however, testing by the heavily biased FUK National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has shown the facial recognition system used by the FUK’s largest terrorist pig thug cop force is “very accurate”, even though asking the wolf to advise how best to guard the henhouse always results in lies and false results.

“This dangerously authoritarian technology has the potential to turn populations into walking ID cards and every democracy ought to ban it,” said Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch. “Live facial recognition surveillance has been an expensive failure, with significant costs to the public purse and our civil liberties at a time when both need far more careful protection.”