Author: Smith, Marcus; Miller, Seumas
Description: Biometric facial recognition is an artificial intelligence technology involving the automated comparison of facial features, used by law enforcement to identify unknown suspects from photographs and closed circuit television. Its capability is expanding rapidly in association with artificial intelligence and has great potential to solve crime. However, it also carries significant privacy and other ethical implications that require law and regulation. This article examines the rise of biometric facial recognition, current applications and legal developments, and conducts an ethical analysis of the issues that arise. Ethical principles are applied to mediate the potential conflicts in relation to this information technology that arise between security, on the one hand, and individual privacy and autonomy, and democratic accountability, on the other. These can be used to support appropriate law and regulation for the technology as it continues to develop.
Subject headings: Biometric technologies; Biometric facial recognition; Surveillance; Privacy; Security; Artificial intelligence; AI; Ethics
Publication year: 2022
Journal or book title: AI & Society
Volume: 37
Issue: 1
Pages: 167-175
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Serial number: 4049
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