Privacy and biometrics at Radio 24
Eyes on me please!
A New York Times journalist has revealed the existence of Clearview, a facial recognition app with a database of 3 billion photos of
people and very simple to use, just take a photo of a person to identify them, a system adopted by law enforcement in the USA and beyond.
Clearview AI uses a facial recognition algorithm to match an image held by the police with one in its database. This is how, in February, Indiana police, the first to use the service, were able to identify a person who shot and killed someone in a park during a dispute.
According to what has been disclosed, the software would be able to detect the correct identity of a person in approximately 75% of cases.
Of course, it will be necessary to verify whether there are also what are known in jargon as "false positives".
Privacy and biometrics at Radio 24
Europe is considering banning the use of facial recognition in public places for at least 5 years.
But it seems to be more of a cosmetic ban, since there will certainly be exceptions to the ban, such as those related to public safety.
It remains to be seen whether the aforementioned interests of public safety and surveillance will ultimately prevail.
Moreover, there are already experiments in Italy regarding the profiling of data from a variety of sources.
The story was the subject of an episode of the program Melog, the pleasure of doubt, broadcast on Radio 24 on January 23.
Guests of the show, which dealt with the
complex issue of digital technology between security and privacy, Fulvio Sarzana, lawyer from Rome and blogger expert in new technologies and rights, Luigi Mischitelli, digital and privacy expert and Barbara Calderini,
entrepreneur in the digital transformation sector.
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