""The app brings up the suspect’s vital information, including name, ethnicity, gender and address." Presumably version 2 of the app will also pop up the person's social credit score."
That being said, this will definitely come to the west sooner or later. I mean, doesn't London already have cameras at every street corner for instance ?
I'm concerned about things like these in the UK:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016#...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Economy_Act_2017#React...
The only difference is facial recognition vs numbers and letters.
Querying for more invasive information such as medical history, sexual orientation, online accounts, "undesirable people" they are acquainted with) is a simple as a DB connection string and a select statement.
Two can play at the "I don't care about your problems because they don't affect me" game.
Some people live in rural areas with little to no government infrastructure that can be used for dragnet surveillance. They don't have to care about the government tracking faces with the subway security cameras.
That's a dumb game to play. Dragnet surveillance is bad in all forms.
The Met's supposed "super recognisers" have always made me suspicious that they're cover for a recognition computer system. Also for use at protests.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recogni...