Lavorare sulla legislazione per introdurre la tecnologia di riconoscimento facciale “ben avanzata”, afferma il Ministro – The Irish Times

imagine if they had this during the lockdowns … horror to the max

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What’s the point? The jails are full and they haven’t a new on even planed.

Using facial recognition to match cctv images to mug shots will be a complete game changer for solving thefts and burglaries as well as some more serious crimes.

Facial recogni sonwe can identify criminals, prosecute then and hand then a suspended sentence and send them back to the streets 😂 we’re a proper shower of Muppets sometimes

This is a step too far for me. Why are we embracing a technology that has raised massive ethical and justice issues around its use and implementation. It is just to seem tough on crime with no regard to the consequences or the tribunals and compensation claims down the road?

There was an Oireachtas hearing on this last year. A computer scientist from TCD, considered to be the leading international expert, said there is no evidence that this can be implemented without major ethical beaches. So why are we doing it? What does the minister know that the experts don’t?

They’ll need wide angle lenses for our big Irish heads.

Good. 

Having been tangentially involved in the video analysis part of a Garda investigation, I’m very aware of the _hours_ of manpower that can be wasted manually trawling through video footage. Retrospective facial recognition would immediately expedite that process.

I don’t see any downside to using technology to speed up a process the Gardai _already_ do manually. You are arriving at the exact same outcome, just quicker.

Real-time facial recognition is a very different matter, but that’s not what is being proposed.

Funny they can’t do housing but they can spy on us. Interesting this is after their bare faced corruption the last few years.