Submitted on Thursday 9th April 2026
Rejected on Thursday 7th May 2026
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Regulate the Use of Facial Recognition Technology in Public Spaces
Provide legislation to clearly enforce GDPR when it comes to the use of facial recognition within applications, social media and in public. Protect citizens from having facial recognition used without their consent.
In this modern age of data our privacy is constantly being violated. The wide spread use of facial recognition within applications, social media and in public is a clear violation of our rights and a breech of GDPR. The government must clearly legislate the use of facial recognition technology to protect the publics privacy and enable law enforcement to police it.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We are not clear what action you are seeking from the UK Government or Parliament, and how this is different to what is currently happening.
We have a petition open on a similar topic which you may wish to sign:
'Ban the use of facial recognition software & require consent for biometric data'
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/760164
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