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MEPs Support Curbing Police Use of Facial Recognition

posted by mrpg on Monday October 11 2021, @08:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the too-late-now-we-have-masks dept.

upstart writes:

MEPs support curbing police use of facial recognition:

Police should be banned from using blanket facial-recognition surveillance to identify people not suspected of crimes. Certain private databases of people’s faces for identification systems ought to be outlawed, too.

That's the feeling of the majority of members in the European Parliament this week. In a vote on Wednesday, 377 MEPs backed a resolution restricting law enforcement’s use of facial recognition, 248 voted against, and 62 abstained.

“AI-based identification systems already misidentify minority ethnic groups, LGBTI people, seniors and women at higher rates, which is particularly concerning in the context of law enforcement and the judiciary,” reads a statement from the parliament.

“To ensure that fundamental rights are upheld when using these technologies, algorithms should be transparent, traceable and sufficiently documented, MEPs ask. Where possible, public authorities should use open-source software in order to be more transparent.”

MEP = Member of the European Parliament

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @03:55PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @03:55PM (#1186173)

    If you have ubiquitous surveillance, you can map people's social graphs. From these social graphs, you can, with high accuracy, categorize individuals.

    There was a study in Turkey which used data from a data dump of the social network, Friendster to see if they could identify homosexual people using nothing but the person's social graph. They had an over 90% success rate.

    So, yes, this could be used to identify LGBT or, probably closer to home for you, Nazis.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @07:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @07:32AM (#1186369)

    If you have this and that and those, the cows would fly. BUT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT FACIAL RECOGNITION HERE. Was i talking about all around surveilance, NO I WAS NOT AND IT WAS NOT THE TOPIC.

    Pretty fucking quick trigger finger you got there with that nazi card. You piece of shit know nothing about my life. You are the problem here with your agitation. Unlike you, i know what the topic is and i am a rational person.