Commentary: How to make Singapore smile for the facial recognition camera

Singapore is among nations experimenting with facial recognition at immigration checkpoints.

In December, the US dropped a plan to require facial scans of its citizens at immigration checkpoints. In February, two US senators introduced a bill that would impose a moratorium. The New York Times reported in January that over 600 American law enforcement agencies used the services of Clearview AI.

Artificial intelligence experts everywhere know how to design facial recognition technology, because, as Al Gidari of Stanford Law School says: “There is no monopoly on math”. To manage the spread of COVID-19, SenseTime, a leading Chinese AI company, unveiled a facial recognition product that incorporates thermal imaging to detect and identify people running a fever. It can scan up to 10 people per second, and has been deployed in public places in Beijing, Shanghai and Shengzhen.

In December 2019, a US government study found similar biases in most of the hundreds of the algorithms on the market. The technology has been used to rescue victims of child sex abuse, to catch perpetrators of these and other crimes, and to identify bodies of murder victims.It would be an injustice to the people we serve if we policed our 21st-century city without using 21st-century technology.

A compromise between standing still and proceeding unfettered is to regulate the technology to maintain trust. False positives – saying your face matches one from a wanted list when you are not on the list – are an entirely foreseeable, dire problem. Should facial recognition cameras be installed in most public places, people worry that they will be continuously tracked and lose anonymity.

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