This is a very interesting article by Stephen Bonner, the Information Commissioner Ofiice’s Deputy Commissioner for Regulatory Supervision, discussing the ICO’s process in it’s decisions around Facewatch’s products that use live facial recognition (LFR). Blog: Balancing people’s privacy rights with the need to prevent crime | ICO It is worth …
Facial recognition in the UK to track offenders
This is an interesting article, by Namrata Primlani a Doctoral Researcher at Northumbria University, Newcastle, looking at the technical and ethical issues of using facial recognition for tracking offenders: Facial recognition: UK plans to monitor migrant offenders are unethical – and they won’t work (theconversation.com) And the view from India: …
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A challenge to facial recognition surveillance
There are a lot of issues around facial recognition (Kostka, Steinacker and Meckel. 2021). Law enforcement likes it, that makes sense, but then where do they get their footage to examine from? Should we have privacy when we walk down a street? What happens if the machine learning behind the …
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Clearview facial recognition company fined
The ICO has taken action against Clearview AI Inc for using the images of UK residents to create a global face recognition database and has prohibited them from collecting images of UK residents from the internet. This was a joint investigation between the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) …
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A couple of interesting privacy stories
Respecting privacy is a good start to an effective security policy – it is why thinking about clarifying and classifying your data is one of the first things I cover in my Cyber Security Master Class. Here are a couple of privacy articles I thought were interesting: Europe Is Building …
Volunteers in the cyber war
As part of our “weekend read” section, here is a piece by Chris Stokel-Walker and Dan Milmo at The Guardian looking at the hacker volunteers, fighting what they consider a white hat action against Russia. ‘It’s the right thing to do’: the 300,000 volunteer hackers coming together to fight Russia …
Just as I praise the ICO – they are shown to be taking “private” action
For private you can read secret, unless you are able to make a Freedom-of-Information request. Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Wikipedia and Freedom of Information Act 2000 (legislation.gov.uk) A few days ago I wrote this article in which I praised the ICO: There is an article on The Register, …
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