The Cambridge handbook of facial recognition in the modern state / edited by Rita Matulionyte, Monika Zalnieriute.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

1st edition

201790

Human face recognition (Computer science)

Electronic surveillance -- Law and legislation.

Biometric identification -- Law and legislation.

Face -- Identification.

Data mining in law enforcement.

Introduction: facial recognition in the modern state

Part I: Facial recognition technology in context: technical and legal challenges

1. Facial recognition technology: key issues and emerging concerns

2. Facial recognition technologies 101: technical insights

3. FRT in ‘bloom’: beyond single origin narratives

4. Transparency of facial recognition technology and trade secrets

5. Privacy’s loose grip on facial recognition: law and the operational image

6. Facial recognition technology and potential for bias and discrimination

7. Power and protest: facial recognition and public space surveillance

8. Faces of war: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and military use of facial recognition technology

Part II: Facial recognition technology across the globe: jurisdictional perspectives

9. Government use of facial recognition technologies under European law

10. European biometric surveillance, concrete rules, and uniform enforcement: beyond regulatory abstraction and local enforcement

11. Lawfulness and police use of facial recognition in the United Kingdom: article 8 ECHR and Bridges v. South Wales Police

12. Does big brother exist? facial recognition technology in the United Kingdom

13. Facial recognition technologies in the public sector: observations from Germany

14. A Central-Eastern Europe perspective on FRT regulation: a case study of Lithuania

15. An overview of facial recognition technology regulation in the United States

16. Regulating facial recognition in Brazil: legal and policy perspectives

17. FRT regulation in China

18. Principled regulation of facial recognition technology: a view from Australia and New Zealand

19. Morocco’s governance of cities and borders: ai-enhanced surveillance, facial recognition, and human rights.

In situations ranging from border control to policing and welfare, governments are using automated facial recognition technology (FRT) to collect taxes, prevent crime, police cities and control immigration. FRT involves the processing of a person's facial image, usually for identification, categorisation or counting. This ambitious handbook brings together a diverse group of legal, computer, communications, and social and political science scholars to shed light on how FRT has been developed, used by public authorities, and regulated in different jurisdictions across five continents. Informed by their experiences working on FRT across the globe, chapter authors analyse the increasing deployment of FRT in public and private life. The collection argues for the passage of new laws, rules, frameworks, and approaches to prevent harms of FRT in the modern state and advances the debate on scrutiny of power and accountability of public authorities which use FRT. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. - Publisher's website.

Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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1 online resource (xix, 284 pages) : PDF