:Several [[Civil and political rights|civil rights groups]] denounce proposals made by [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|British Prime Minister]] [[Keir Starmer]] to grant [[Law enforcement in the United Kingdom|British police]] nationalized [[Facial recognition system|live facial recognition technology]] and [[surveillance]] to [[criminal charge|charge]] people police consider significantly likely to participate in [[Far-right politics in the United Kingdom|far-right]] riots, condemning the [[opportunism]] of the proposals, their potential racial and gender inaccuracy, and their possible use to target future legal protests. [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/02/starmer-live-facial-recognition-plan-would-usher-in-national-id-campaigners-warn (''The Guardian'')]