Labour plans to consult on use of live facial recognition before wider roll-out | Facial recognition
The new police minister told the party’s annual conference, Labour plans to consult with the use of live face recognition (LFR) technology before expanding throughout England.
An Internal Bureau Minister Sarah Jones said that the government will “put some parameters” when and where to be used in the future.
Campaigns claim that the police are allowed to regulate technology on their own due to a legal framework lack and that they are allowed to distribute the algorithm of the technology in lower environments with prejudiced environments against ethnic minorities and women.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission said that its use is illegal and incompatible with European laws.
Speaking at the Fringe meeting of the Tony Blair Institute at Liverpool, Jones said, “We need to put some parameters that we can use to recognize the face.
“There are some advice on how we use it. But we need to go more to make sure when it should be used and when it should not be used.
“Because there is not really much structure around what it is used right now. We need to look at whether this is enough and whether we need to do more.
Croydon West Deputy Jones, Shadow House Secretary and Croydon Deputy Chris Philp’in London district of London, he said he supported the use of criminals after being deployed to capture criminals.
“Chris Philp is very curious about it and always speaks. And what we see from Croydon works.
“If we’re just going to use more, if we want to roll all over the country, what are the parameters?” he said.
“Let’s make sure that people understand that there is a conversation that we should have, because people have brought him up as a problem both as parliamentarians and as a public, and they want to understand how to use it.
“We will consult this issue. It will be very important in the future. Something that starts under the last government and something we think they are right.”
Civil Liberation groups called the metropolitan police to quit the use of LFR cameras after a high court struggle last month by Shaun Thompson, an anti -knife campaignist. Thompson, a black British man, was described as a criminal held by the police by the LFR, and then met the officers for fingerprints.
Asked about racial prejudice concerns, Jones said, “I think technology has developed over the years it was used and is now widely true.
“I think we can assurance to people … We used it to capture hundreds of dangerous criminals. But of course we have to make sure that this is used correctly.”
