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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
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday October 11 2021, @06:06PM
That was a publication from Europe (and in particular a former EU country), written for people in the land of publication. Do you also complain when you see e.g. POTUS in an American article?
Also the explanation was at the end because it was not part of the quoted article, but something added here on SN to help the non-European readers who might not be familiar with that abbreviation.
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