Campaigners, experts and peers say the U.K. is fast becoming an outlier among democracies in the pace at which it is adopting live facial recognition (LFR) technology in the absence of firm legal underpinnings.
In contrast, the issue has rarely made headlines in the U.K. — despite Prime Minister Rishi Sunak seeking to position the country as a global leader in AI governance.
Civil society groups warn that facial recognition technology, particularly in its live form, is invasive, imperfect and risks exacerbating the same sort of structural issues in community policing that have marred policies like “stop and search.”
Under the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, the government is proposing to abolish the position of surveillance camera commissioner, a role responsible for encouraging compliance with one of the few statutory codes that does mention LFR.
The Home Office, however, argues that a combination of common law policing powers, non-binding guidance, and human rights, data protection, and equalities legislation forms a “comprehensive legal framework” with “appropriate safeguards.”
“The U.K. is increasingly an outlier in the democratic world in taking this approach, with European countries, the EU, U.S. states and cities banning or severely restricting law enforcement use of LFR.”
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Campaigners, experts and peers say the U.K. is fast becoming an outlier among democracies in the pace at which it is adopting live facial recognition (LFR) technology in the absence of firm legal underpinnings.
In contrast, the issue has rarely made headlines in the U.K. — despite Prime Minister Rishi Sunak seeking to position the country as a global leader in AI governance.
Civil society groups warn that facial recognition technology, particularly in its live form, is invasive, imperfect and risks exacerbating the same sort of structural issues in community policing that have marred policies like “stop and search.”
Under the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, the government is proposing to abolish the position of surveillance camera commissioner, a role responsible for encouraging compliance with one of the few statutory codes that does mention LFR.
The Home Office, however, argues that a combination of common law policing powers, non-binding guidance, and human rights, data protection, and equalities legislation forms a “comprehensive legal framework” with “appropriate safeguards.”
“The U.K. is increasingly an outlier in the democratic world in taking this approach, with European countries, the EU, U.S. states and cities banning or severely restricting law enforcement use of LFR.”
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