Big Brother Watch share concerns over facial recognition

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Rebecca Vincent from Big Brother Watch says facial recognition treats communities as “a nation of suspects” and is “less accurate when scanning black faces”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The tech does have a certain degree of bias baked into it that's improved

00:04slowly over the years but it does still get it wrong and we know that it's less

00:08accurate when scanning black faces. This is one of the reasons that we've

00:11expressed concern over the the Mets announcement that it will be using this

00:15technology at the Notting Hill Carnival the weekend after next. But there's also

00:19a fundamental concern from a privacy rights perspective. We don't think that

00:23innocent people should constantly have their biometrics captured when they're

00:28going about their everyday lives. It reverses the presumption of innocence

00:31really. It treats us as a nation of suspects. So when people say nothing to

00:36hide, nothing to fear, we kind of reject that because it is treating us all as

00:40guilty until proven otherwise. That's quite a fundamental civil liberties issue.

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