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EXPLAINING ETHICAL AFR After the BSIA launched its ethical and legal guide for the use of Automated Facial Recognition (AFR) earlier this year, IFSEC Global caught up with the Chairman of its Video Surveillance Systems Section, Ben Linklater, to find out more about the purpose of the guide . CHRISSIE JOSLIN, ASSISTANT EDITOR, IFSEC GLOBAL
The new publication is intended for use by Technical guidance has already been system designers, installers, and end- drafted, need for AFR in given situations.
use remains divisive. How does the BSIA’s new guide aim to support those in the
within my segment – AI being the overarching discussion. With all the world-
quite some time now, the uses of AFR technology remain extremely diverse. The
nothing
in which this technology can be applied.
Automated facial recognition technology As an end-user, you are looking to use this has been around for some time now, but its technology as a solution, you’re not
The guide was birthed out of a discussion
Despite being present in the industry for
there’s
users, and includes an assessment of the covering the ethical and legal framework
private security industry?
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however,
wide attention AI has been receiving, and the leaps forward AFR is taking, it’s becoming more prevalent in the industry
necessarily sure where to start and end. When we started this, there was a blanket ban being discussed on AFR in the UK, but the industry stepped up and provided legal and ethical framework and now a ban is completely off the table. The point of making the guidance was to remove technical jargon and create
and something our members are keen to guidance the end-user, as well as the installer, can understand. talk about.
BSIA’s new guide aims to cover the ethical and legal framework surrounding AFR – a
When we started this, there was a blanket ban being discussed on
complex issue, but one that affects
AFR in the UK, but the industry stepped up and provided legal and
installers, users and operators of facial recognition surveillance systems. 16
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ethical framework and now a ban is completely off the table.
