The justice minister has come beneath strain to elucidate the character of laws that might permit gardai to make use of facial recognition know-how (FRT).
Helen McEntee yesterday informed the Garda Consultant Affiliation’s (GRA) annual convention in Mayo that she meant to introduce legal guidelines to facilitate the usage of the know-how.
The brand new laws, if handed by the Dail, shall be contained within the forthcoming Garda Digital Recordings Invoice, which was deliberate to control the usage of body-worn cameras by gardai.
Senior gardai informed The Instances they have been shocked by the proposed laws. A four-year trial of facial recognition know-how use by police in London discovered that 81 per cent of “matches” have been wrongly recognized as suspects
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It’s unclear if the facial recognition know-how talked about by McEntee shall be deployed in public areas to observe and determine folks, or if its use shall be restricted to analysing CCTV footage collected throughout felony investigations. The Division of Justice didn’t reply to queries
