#biometricsurveillance (6 results)

Remote biometric identification is a colonial boomerang

While many feel – rightly – outraged by how live face recognition and other remote biometric identification infringes on our freedom in public spaces, I think it misses – in part – the point of the technology. To understand its purpose, we need to look into colonial history.

Pride With Pride! Stop Mass Surveillance at Pride, Stop Face Recognition Now

Explainer: Predictive Policing

Algorithmic Policing: When Predicting Means Presuming Guilty

Algorithmic policing refers to practices with which it is allegedly possible to “predict” future crimes and detect future perpetrators by using algorithms and historical crime data. We explain why such practices are often discriminatory, do not hold up to what they promise, and lack a legal justification.

Automating Injustice: “Predictive” policing in Germany

The police, criminal justice authorities, and prisons in Germany are increasingly exploring digital possibilities for "predicting" and "preventing" crimes. The report Automating Injustice gives an overview of such systems being developed and deployed in Germany.

Explainer: Biometric recognition systems

Show Your Face and AI Tells Who You Are

Biometric recognition technologies can identify and monitor people. They are supposed to provide more security, but they put fundamental rights at risk, discriminate, and can even pave the way to mass surveillance.

Our response to the EDPB’s guidelines on facial recognition in law enforcement

The European Data Protection Board has called for input on its recently published guidelines on the use of facial recognition technology in law enforcement. AlgorithmWatch responded.