In plain terms, it said, it amounted to a proposition that gardaí would record their interactions with the public, store them indefinitely, take “faceprints” and in certain circumstances use AI algorithms to assess whether anyone is of interest to an investigation.
Dr Elizabeth Farries, of University College Dublin’s Centre for Digital Policy (CDP), who coined the term “digital deja vu”, says something bad has happened and “we’ve got some grand claims from our Ministers that we are going to take this powerful technology, stir it into an existing social problem and solve it”.įrom a human rights point of view and a citizen’s point of view, is FRT going to be used correctly, is it compliant with general data protection regulation and also privacy law requirements? - Ronan Lupton, senior counselĭuring the debate on FRT earlier this year, the CDP was among a number of critics suggesting the technology was ethically and technically unsound.
