The Guardian – Outrage over police access to 50m driving licences to run face checks

The Guardian reports police will be able to run facial recognition searches on a database containing images of Britain’s 50 million driving licence holders under a law change being quietly introduced by the government. It writes that the law’s critics believe it “poses risk of bias and threat to civil liberties”. 

In international news, the paper also reports on the push for a second hostage deal between Israel and Hamas. Israel says 132 people remain unaccounted for after being abducted by Hamas and taken to Gaza on 7 October, an attack that provoked retaliatory strikes in the Palestinian territory that have killed some 20,000 according to the Hamas-run health ministry.