Police across Britain could be granted access to the national passport database as part of a wide-ranging plan to expand facial recognition technology in every city, town and village, reports The Telegraph.

Under Labour’s proposals, officers would be able to match images of suspects caught on CCTV, doorbell cameras and dashcams with photographs contained in government databases, including the 45 million passport records held by the state , as well as immigration files.

The plans were set out in a Home Office consultation launched on Thursday, aimed at building a legal framework that allows all police forces to use facial recognition to track down wanted individuals and crime suspects.

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