The article mentions the AI Act and claims it “restricts the use of remote biometric identification — including facial recognition technology — in public places unless it is to fight “serious” crime, such as kidnappings and terrorism”, which I am afraid seems rather hollow as that is basically how it is already used.
I’m not sure whether it’s the reporting that’s confused or the politicians, but this distinction between three different things (“facial recognition technology”, “private facial recognition databases”, and “predictive policing”) is very strange. Modern facial recognition algorithms are just clustering vectors, and facial recognition databases are just lots of pictures of faces, neither seems well-defined enough to easily ban. And predictive policing is just plain bizarre - what relationship does that have with facial recognition at all?
I’m not sure whether it’s the reporting that’s confused or the politicians, but this distinction between three different things (“facial recognition technology”, “private facial recognition databases”, and “predictive policing”) is very strange. Modern facial recognition algorithms are just clustering vectors, and facial recognition databases are just lots of pictures of faces, neither seems well-defined enough to easily ban. And predictive policing is just plain bizarre - what relationship does that have with facial recognition at all?