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Comment by Shockat Adam

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UK Member of Parliament
New clause 21 calls for a ban on live facial recognition because it is not safe, lacks legal legitimacy [...]
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AI Verified Verified in the official Hansard record for the House of Commons debate on June 18, 2025. The contribution is attributed to Shockat Adam, and the sentence begins exactly as in the supplied quote; the omitted continuation is "and is an attack on the fundamental democratic rights of the British people." That makes the excerpt with [...] a faithful verbatim truncation. ([hansard.parliament.uk](https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-06-18/debates/62d71313-93d7-4b5a-94ec-0e1b25f46fe2/CommonsChamber)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Verified Quote by Shockat Adam (Independent MP for Leicester South) supporting New Clause 21 to ban live facial recognition because it is not safe and lacks legal legitimacy. Source is the official Hansard record of the Crime and Policing Bill report stage, Commons Chamber, 18 June 2025. The Hansard URL returned HTTP 403 to direct WebFetch, but web search confirmed the specifics: New Clause 21 of the Crime and Policing Bill (debated 17-18 June 2025) sought to prohibit police use of live facial recognition in publicly accessible spaces, and Shockat Adam spoke in this debate raising exactly these concerns — citing FRT use in Russia, China and Israel, and the lack of dedicated UK legislation / insufficient "quality of law" (the Bridges Court of Appeal finding) underpinning the "not safe, lacks legal legitimacy" framing. Speaker, date, clause, and substance all match. Attribution correct; year 2025 accurate; quote relevant. Vote alignment: linked statement is "Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance"; Adam supports banning live facial recognition, so the "for" vote (in favour of a ban) is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 10d ago
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