The EU is currently considering temporarily banning facial recognition.
The Clearview company from the USA is said to have collected images from social media billions of times in order to establish a database for facial detection. With that you could Artificial intelligence work out. This unprecedented mass rage has even shocked political players in the United States.
Curbing technology in Europe is a proposal of the EU Commission’s White Paper on Artificial Intelligence. Face recognition is particularly popular in Germany and is used, for example, at the train station Southern Cross used in Berlin. This federal government also boasts another 148 fields of application. However, these are test fields and just yesterday, Interior Minister Seehofer (CSU) announced that he still had some questions about it and that the law did not contain the technology.
The EU White Paper on the subject refers to the dangers of technology, such as the undermining of the EU, on 18 pages data protection and mass surveillance by authorities. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is contrary to the concept and therefore the regulation should now be adapted. People would have to agree to the automated image processing of their faces.
The recommendation is that the use of the technology should remain prohibited until the new regulation. The authors speak of three to five years. The technology should only be permitted for research and security purposes, and a judicial approval is required for the security application.
Furthermore, the document deals with the use of AI in autonomous vehicles. With reference to Uber’s fatal accident, the safety of such systems must be checked. This could prove to be serious, because so far it is unclear how artificial intelligence is works,
About David Fluhr
I have been writing about autonomous & connected driving since 2011 and also report on it on other sites, such as the Smart Mobility Hub. I studied social sciences at the HU Berlin and have been an independent journalist since 2012. Contact: mail@autonomes-fahren.de