By Aaron Kesel
The European Union is considering banning facial recognition technology which has raised massive privacy concerns over the years since its inception, risking us walking into George Orwell’s nightmare 1984.
The European Commission is considering a ban on all facial recognition technology in public places for three to five years, the BBC reported.
The Commission hopes to examine the technology during these years with “a sound methodology for assessing the impacts of this technology and possible risk management measures could be identified and developed,” the EC’s 18-page white paper on facial recognition writes.
The proposal seeks to add to the already existing regulation surrounding privacy and data rights or the GDPR (General Data Protection Rights). The proposed law seeks to impose restrictions on “both developers and users of artificial intelligence, and urged EU countries to create an authority to monitor the new rules.”
According to the news agency, the proposals come amid calls from politicians and campaigners in the UK to stop the police from using live facial recognition for public surveillance.
Facial recognition technology has shown numerous issues over the years such as racial bias. Other problems notable by Fight For The Future, which ran a campaign against implementing the technology at music venues, cited “dangers to their fans in the form of police harassment including — misidentification, deportation, arrests for outstanding charges during an event and drug use during an event, discrimination at their concerts, and fans in a permanent government database,” all very valid concerns.
Last year, Activist Post consistently reported numerous studies finding that the technology’s accuracy isn’t all it’s marketed to be. Then Big Brother Watch, a watchdog observing UK Metropolitan Police trials, stated the technology misidentified members of the public, including a 14-year-old black child in a school uniform who was stopped and fingerprinted by police, as potential criminals in as much as 96 percent of scans, according to the organization in a press release.
You are on the ball Michael, well said.Editor
obviously the EU woke to the fact that allowing the world biggest terror group to be able to cover their faces on religious grounds recognizing the victims was not a priority before an attacks as the dead would be carrying ID unlike the perpetrators who would probably have false passports and a burka . australian intelligence (ha ha) is yet to reach that conclusion as we seen in melbourne with police on foot chasing a madman well known to police and on bail in a car as he mows down families on a city street .
1984 was not a novel, it was an instruction manual.
We have it , i cant see them putting it in mothballs.
Off track a bit but I had to post it somewhere.
Satanism and religious freedom.-
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It’s hard to believe that the EU, communist central, are more liberal that us. I am 100% COMPLETELY against facial recognition systems.. Have a look at China – those who think they should be just love the Chinese systems..Gulags, social points etc..