We have yet to be given clear reasons why we need facial recognition technology even though a Bill relating to it is meandering through our political process
Facial recognition technology joins other unacceptably invasive technologies and policies in my informal “summer of surveillance” series on how the EU and its states are increasingly attempting to introduce levels of population-spying that would have been anathema only years earlier. Photograph: iStockDraft General Scheme of Garda Síochána Bill
But the database is not a selection of suspects chosen on reasonable grounds they might have attempted or committed the crime in question.Such methods would once have been discarded as too invasive, too expansive, too disproportionate and too undemocratic. And they may yet be, as legal challenges up to the European Court of Justice level are sure to come, as these technologies start to be used, and cases of wrongful arrest and unwonted surveillance begin to mount, as they most surely will.
Others include data retention and proposals to make weakened digital “back doors” into widely used communications methods such as encrypted apps. Which of course, then become broken-encryption apps. Unfortunately, it’s not just studies that demonstrate such bias. It’s real life and real people, almost always people of colour, having their lives turned upside down after being incorrectly matched by FRT to a crime.on FRT which featured Robert Williams, a black man from Detroit who arrived home from work to be wrongfully arrested on his driveway, in front of his wife and two small daughters and his neighbours, based on a false FRT match for a minor crime.
He also noted wryly that Detroit could have put the tens of millions it spent on faulty FRT towards addressing the poverty that often pushes people towards crime.to clarify how the technology would be used and what databases of imagery it would draw upon. No answers have been forthcoming.
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