Lawmakers advance proposals to let police forces across the EU link their photo databases—which include millions of pictures of people’s faces.
Europe can not deal with hybrid war in social media platforms like Facebook, but is building huge facial recognition system?
System that would ban and block Putin bots would be much more helpful, because apparently anyone can spot them expect social media platforms.
This is stupid.
Facial? Hell yeah
Europe is becoming uncomfortably authoritarian.
Hey europe, could you not? Thanks
Uhm, no thanks.
You fucking assholes…
Not clickbait at all. /s
A **proposal** to link **already existing** national foto databases is not nearly as outrageous as the title suggests. It’s probably not even unreasonable.
If we’re ok with EU member states having their own databases of pictures of certain criminals then it’s not a big step at all to suggest that these databases should be integrated. We have open borders, so we also need effective cross border law enforcement.
>Prüm II allows the use of retrospective facial recognition. This means police forces can compare still images from CCTV cameras, photos from social media, or those on a victim’s phone against mug shots held on a police database. The technology is different from live facial recognition systems, which are often connected to cameras in public spaces; these have faced the most criticism.
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>These images can include suspects, those convicted of crimes, asylum seekers, and “unidentified dead bodies,” and they come from multiple sources in each country.
I don’t think this is crazy at all. It would just integrate what all individual member states are already doing on their own and allow their national police forces to also find criminals / suspects from other member states.
We should also keep in mind that this legislation is still in its infancy and no where near final and that the EU is also working on severely restricting the use of facial recognition in areas of law enforcement.
>The EU is debating a ban on the police use of facial recognition in public places as part of its AI Act.
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Lawmakers advance proposals to let police forces across the EU link their photo databases—which include millions of pictures of people’s faces.
Europe can not deal with hybrid war in social media platforms like Facebook, but is building huge facial recognition system?
System that would ban and block Putin bots would be much more helpful, because apparently anyone can spot them expect social media platforms.
This is stupid.
Facial? Hell yeah
Europe is becoming uncomfortably authoritarian.
Hey europe, could you not? Thanks
Uhm, no thanks.
You fucking assholes…
Not clickbait at all. /s
A **proposal** to link **already existing** national foto databases is not nearly as outrageous as the title suggests. It’s probably not even unreasonable.
If we’re ok with EU member states having their own databases of pictures of certain criminals then it’s not a big step at all to suggest that these databases should be integrated. We have open borders, so we also need effective cross border law enforcement.
>Prüm II allows the use of retrospective facial recognition. This means police forces can compare still images from CCTV cameras, photos from social media, or those on a victim’s phone against mug shots held on a police database. The technology is different from live facial recognition systems, which are often connected to cameras in public spaces; these have faced the most criticism.
​
>These images can include suspects, those convicted of crimes, asylum seekers, and “unidentified dead bodies,” and they come from multiple sources in each country.
I don’t think this is crazy at all. It would just integrate what all individual member states are already doing on their own and allow their national police forces to also find criminals / suspects from other member states.
We should also keep in mind that this legislation is still in its infancy and no where near final and that the EU is also working on severely restricting the use of facial recognition in areas of law enforcement.
>The EU is debating a ban on the police use of facial recognition in public places as part of its AI Act.
Thats quite bad.