One could interpret this headline as 'misleading' : The parliament is not speaking on general policy, but only on the application of the technology on themselves ( the MEPs ).
Whereas Australia has blown right through the discussion and enabled facial recognition without public discourse.<p>I just found out a close suburb (East Perth) has 30-60 government run facial recognition cameras being installed with this being pushed this year to the entire Perth city area.<p><a href="https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-19/face-tracking-technology-rolled-out-across-east-perth/10636476" rel="nofollow">https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-19/face-tracking-tech...</a><p>There is a reason Australia is the guinea pig of the western nations for erosion of rights and privacy tests to see how far we can be contained and pushed.<p>Because Australians are the most passive of all peoples across the world and are historically the easiest population to control.<p>But once the five eyes work out their tech and policy here they will push it out to the rest of the world.<p>We are the control group.<p><a href="https://www.afr.com/technology/five-eyes-fears-rise-over-aussie-encryption-laws-20190221-h1bj6f" rel="nofollow">https://www.afr.com/technology/five-eyes-fears-rise-over-aus...</a><p>Australia’s population is so passive that we have passed extremely terrifying laws that now the five eyes use to bypass their own countries laws.<p>Australia today. UK and USA tomorrow.
It is good to see that large scale surveillance is rejected. But I know it is important to stay vigilant. The EU certainly has an ambition to be more attractive as a location for tech, but I think surveillance and security technologies have a high amount of grifters and should not be encouraged.
I does not mean there is no facial recognition deployed.
I live in Marseille, France, and facial recognition is currently beeing deployey all over the city.<p>In fact, not only facial recognition, but posture recognition, walk recognition, etc.
Marseille and Nice are two test-towns for global french deployment...
As usual, politicians start to claim privacy rights when it comes to them, and yet this technology is already being tested throughout major European cities.<p>The hypocrisy is real.