Facial recognition technology: A solution to problems that hardly exist

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties highlighted concerns in 2019, and in 2021 presented the hospital as a worrying Irish case study for an annual report from an international network of civil liberties organisations.

But then, the Government speedily provided fresh concerns about FRT, with Minister for Justice Helen McEntee last week announcing the planned introduction of FRT to gardaí. Details are few, but she indicated the technology would be utilised to scan photographic, video and CCTV evidence against a database of images of suspects. This would help address a large backlog of evidence needing examination, a task demanding “thousands of hours” of garda manual inspection, she said.

Shrishak stresses that little is known about the content of FRT databases or how they are used, but once they are compiled they can be merged with detailed profiles of people down to their smallest interactions built from online information. He says that claims that only some special CCTV implementations would incorporate FRT is misleading. Any CCTV footage can be run through FRT afterwards – it isn’t a case of whether FRT is on the front end of the system.

“I haven’t seen any cases where this technology is useful,” he says, noting that targeted training for gardaí is more important and productive and would be the norm in other policing contexts and other forms of evidence-gathering. Policing shouldn’t be “about seizing a lot of data. It’s about understanding the context of what they’re looking for, and then basically, narrowing down.”Two more Irish surveillance stories caught my eye.

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