Some years ago law enforcement in the United Kingdom, quite clearly having taken notes from the Chinese government, decided to install surveillance cameras in several cities that had automatic facial recognition software in them, to more easily find criminals.
Unsurprisingly, and quite justly, a lot of people raised concerns about the question of privacy issues that this would create, and commented and protested on how this was once again just another step towards a totalitarian surveillance state, just like China.
However, turns out that UK citizens had nothing to worry about because, very much unlike in China, in the UK the problem solved itself.
Why?
Well, consider the ethnicity of the majority of criminals identified by the automatic surveillance system.
Do I even need to say more?
(Indeed, the British government is now worried about "racial bias" and "racial profiling" that these automated systems are, unsurprisingly, engaging in.)
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