Britain is ‘omni-surveillance’ society, watchdog warns

Exclusive: Fraser Sampson says law is not keeping up with AI advances as police retain 3m images of innocent peopleBritain is an “omni-surveillance” society with police forces in the “extraordinary” position of holding more than 3m custody photographs of innocent people more than a decade after being told to destroy them, the independent surveillance watchdog has said.Fraser Sampson, who will end his term as the Home Office’s biometrics and surveillance commissioner