At least 10 police forces use face recognition in the EU, AlgorithmWatch reveals
▻https://algorithmwatch.org/en/story/face-recognition-police-europe
The majority of the police forces that answered questions by AlgorithmWatch said they use or plan to introduce face recognition. Use cases vary greatly across countries, but almost all have in common their lack of transparency. Police departments have long attempted to acquire, structure and store data on the populations they keep a watch on. Frenchman Alphonse Bertillon pioneered the use of anthropometrics by the police in the 1870s, creating a collection of tens of thousands of cards (...)
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