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Across the world facial recognition technologies (FRT) are increasingly being deployed in public and private spaces without adequate laws or regulation to protect individuals from the grave risks they pose to human rights. States rely more and more on this technology for public mass surveillance, enabling an authoritarian omnipresence over people’s activities, movements, and expressions at all times, often without them knowing.Over the past few years we have raised concerns about the rapid…
Content Type: News & Analysis
Imagine going to a peaceful protest and having to show your ID to the police before you can join it. Or having to fill out a form about why you are attending that particular protest.Sounds absurd, right? Surely we should all be free to protest, without the police knowing who we are?But high tech surveillance of protests is real, and it enables the police to identify, monitor and track protestors, indiscriminately and at scale.For example, your face is increasingly becoming your ID card with the…