Dati fotografici del passaporto RAID della polizia in “Brea di violazione della privacy”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/08/07/police-raid-passport-photo-data-historic-breach-privacy/
di ThatchersDirtyTaint
Dati fotografici del passaporto RAID della polizia in “Brea di violazione della privacy”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/08/07/police-raid-passport-photo-data-historic-breach-privacy/
di ThatchersDirtyTaint
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Who won’t have access to our passports and personal information at this rate?
The “right to privacy” is fast becoming conflated with the “right to get away with crime” by the shrill voices at “Big Brother Watch”.
This is nothing short of a bizarre moral panic over good police work and clever use of resources to help solve crimes. Nobody’s privacy is being breached and the country isn’t becoming some “Orwellian” dystopia, irrespective of how loudly “Big Brother Watch” and their perfidious ilk screech.
There is absolutely no good reason why the police should not be able to cross reference facial images of suspects from CCTV with the DVLA and passport database.
And the government wonders why people don’t want to give their details to porn sites. Who would ever think that if the government and police would raid your data that even pettier and money greedy business won’t?
Considering all the reports on “lawless Britain” coming out of the telegraph, it’s surprising they are worried about under 500 searches a year. Thought they’d want the criminals being caught.
Gonna start posting my passport, address, phone number, email, and national insurance number over all my socials just to get ahead of… Literally everyone else. Because if I don’t now, give it 10 years and it will be anyway.
Kind of amazed they were not doing this already. Makes complete sense. Same with driving license photos.
Well if there is one group of people who I didn’t want to have my passport data, it would be the police I would far rather give it to Reddit. /s*
Edit: /s ofc…
So much the “great bastion” of privacy that the UK was for several centuries, leaving this country is one of the few things I look forward to, it was my home for 40 years, but I cannot call it home anymore, it’s just a place I exist in.
Hang on, according to telegraph catching criminals is a bad thing now and it’s an infringement of people’s civil liberties if the police check passport photos to try to do so?
They are on constant outrage mode at the moment, anything to rile people up it seems. “If you’re a criminal the police may try to catch you… unless you’re one of the yearly bazillion IMMIGRANTS in which case you get a free Mayfair flat and million quid a year”
Were we under the impression that shit like this wasn’t already happening?
Isn’t it amazing how the more breaches of privacy and the more personal data they steal, in the name of “stopping crimes” the lower the rate of the Police actually solving a damn thing? (even when in many cases we know exactly who the career criminals actually are)
Amusing. This would have been at home on the Conspiracy sub. Yet, here we are – UK really is an Orwellian Surveilance state
The UK and any country for that matter need to know who’s there. Obviously the government will take it to far but how do you find a middle ground
Apparently it’s to help identify criminals.
And who gets to decide what and who is a criminal?
I’ll be honest, when I had my photo and fingerprints taken when immigrating to the UK, I assumed that was the reason.
We need a balance between liberalism and authoritarianism – maybe the liberalism has gone too far to the point people do what they want regardless of law !
You have to have ID everywhere anyway BECAUSE of crime so why not accept something like this to solve and prevent crime so we dont need to prove out identity so much?
Seems entirely reasonable to me. I’m surprised it hasn’t been routine
It’s so easy so spot the officers in these kind of threads lol
“Surely it’s a good thing”. “I can’t see why it isn’t a bad thing”. “This will prevent crime”. “<criticism of pro privacy organisation>” etc
Another day, another UK database compromised
Why do we need passport databases if actual terrorists can get ferried into the country with no ID?
This is why I don’t feel too bad about doing face age verification. If you have a passport or driving licence (hell, or a Facebook) your image is already out there.