Face recognition: Are Italy's police using millions more mugshots than is legal?

guest · Jan 22, 2019

Face recognition: Are Italy's police using millions more mugshots than is legal?
Italian law enforcement's SARI facial-recognition system is throwing up civil-rights questions
January 22, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/face-...e-using-millions-more-mugshots-than-is-legal/

Italy's police have been using a new facial-recognition system for the past few months.
It's based on a database of 16 million mugshots, nine million of which belong to people who have been identified by the police only once, while the other seven million are of individuals who have been stopped repeatedly.

As former MP and well-known technology expert Stefano Quintarelli noted on Twitter, a record set of 16 million faces in a population of roughly 50 million adults would correspond to roughly one in three Italians, excluding teenagers, being put on record.

Tommaso Scannicchio, lawyer and fellow of the Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights, stressed how, by making participants at public events feel under surveillance, this real-time system could engender a 'chilling' effect, [...]

"We are not against the SARI itself, which could prove useful. However, these technologies could in theory undermine the privacy and freedom of citizens in ways previously unheard of. It is therefore necessary to carefully monitor their deployment," D'Inca tells ZDNet.
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mirimir · Jan 22, 2019

Huh? 32% of adult Italians have been stopped by police and photographed? That's amazing. In the US, they only photograph you after you've been arrested. So in Italy, do they actually photograph every one who they stop?

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