UK Government Launches New Effort to Crack Down on Public’s ‘Emotions’

by Frank Bergman

The socialist British government has launched a sweeping new legislative push that would give police the authority to deploy advanced street cameras capable of scanning people’s emotions, behaviors, clothing, movements, or vehicles as part of a dystopian expansion of surveillance powers that critics warn would criminalize ordinary citizens before they even commit a crime.

According to the Daily Mail, the crackdown on the general public’s emotions and behaviors is being sold as a tool to “combat crime” and “prevent suicides.”

But beneath the polished language lies a simple reality that the UK is openly preparing to monitor its population at a level previously reserved for authoritarian regimes.

The initiative seeks to dramatically expand facial-recognition powers and grant police access to massive government databases, including passport photo archives, to identify people in real time.

Government Wants Cameras That Read Your Emotions

In early December, the government quietly opened a consultation period that runs through February 12, asking interest groups and citizens to weigh in on a law that would supercharge British policing with predictive surveillance technologies.

Ten police forces in England and Wales already use live facial recognition, scanning passersby and comparing results with databases of wanted individuals.

But the new legislation would take this further than ever before.

Under the proposal, cameras could:

• Analyze body movements and posture

• Infer a person’s “emotions” or “actions”

• Identify clothing characteristics