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DASA seeks solutions that can help increase the use and effectiveness of facial recognition technologies within UK policing and security
The CDEI has published a Snapshot briefing paper looking at the uses and potential implications of facial recognition technology’s deployment in the UK.
Case study from Advai.
Policing minister challenges police to double retrospective facial recognition searches to track down known offenders by May 2024.
A Market Exploration to find technological solutions for increasing the effective and ethical use of Facial Recognition within policing and other security agencies.
The policing minister writes to police chiefs to set out the importance of harnessing innovative technologies to support police in preventing and solving crimes.
Interim report of the Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group Facial Recognition Working Group, February 2019.
Joint statement by the embassies of a number of Western countries in the Russian Federation on the occasion of Pride Month
Assaulting a retail worker to be made a standalone criminal offence.
Published in January 2021 by the British Security Industry Association (BSIA), this guidance promotes ethical and legal use of Automated Facial Recognition (AFR).
Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina and TRIAL International hosted the conceptual artist Alketa Xhafa Mripa who uses her art to draw attention to the reality of sexual violence in conflict.
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