Migrants convicted of criminal offences will need to use smartwatches installed with facial recognition to scan their faces up to five times a day under new government plans
A manual check will be performed if the verification fails.
The individual's name, date of birth, nationality and photographs will be stored for up to six years.LBC has approached the Home Office for a comment.The Home Office said the sharing of similar data with police "is not new"."Facial recognition is known to be an imperfect and dangerous technology that tends to discriminate against people of colour and marginalised communities," Lucie Audibert, a lawyer and legal officer for Privacy International, told The Guardian.
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