Re: I've got zero faith in anything gov.uk says anymore...
Eh? It's not gov.uk though is it, it's opposition parties & back benchers. Almost all the signatories to this letter are all the same people and organisations who've been calling for the banning of facial recognition and biometric profiling for a long time. Linking it to the more recent concern on human rights abuses in China is a tactic to highlight the danger of being complacent about civil liberties here, and to gain more widespread support.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
