Facial recognition is now a reality in the UK

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Saturday, 13 July 2019
13:13 - 13:13
Duration: 56 mins
Publication date: 18 Jul 2019
Location: Conference, Friends House
Part of event Orgcon19

About the session

With trials run by the Metropolitan Police and South Wales, and a legal challenge from Big Brother Watch, the lines are being drawn on this important debate for right to privacy in public spaces. Are we moving towards CCTV cameras as identity checkpoints? What is the next stage in this fight? What is to be learned from the recent banning of the technology in San Francisco? Join Silkie Carlo Director of Big Brother Watch, Dr Suzanne Shale Chair of The London Policing Ethics Panel, Green London Assembly Member Sian Berry and more to discuss the issue.

Keywords:: CCTV

crimes

data

data security

ethics

facial recognition

police

privacy

surveillance

technology

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Madhumita Murgia

Madhumita is the FT's senior technology correspondent, where she covers topics including data and privacy, artificial intelligence and cutting-edge innovation. She is an award-winning journalist and TedXspeaker with expertise in the fields of tech, health and science. Before she joined the FT, she was head of technology at the Daily Telegraph, and associate editor at Wired UK.
Sian Berry

Sian is the Green Party’s co-leader and was elected as a Member of the London Assembly in May 2016. She is standing for London Mayor in 2020 – last time she ran in the Mayoral race she came third with a record vote for a Green candidate.Sian is a Londoner by adoption and lives in Camden, where she’s also a councillor. She is also the author of numerous environmental books.
Silkie Carlo

Silkie is the Director of UK civil liberties and privacy NGO, Big Brother Watch. Previously, she was the Senior Advocacy Officer at Liberty where she led a programme on Technology and Human Rights and launched a legal challenge to the Investigatory Powers Act. She previously worked for Edward Snowden’s official defence fund and whistleblowers at risk.She is a passionate campaigner for the protection of liberties, particularly in the context of new and emerging technologies. She has worked to uphold rights in the fields of state surveillance, policing technologies, big data, artificial intelligence and free expression online. Silkie is also an information security trainer and organises Cryptoparty London. She is the co-author of Information Security for Journalists.
Dr Suzanne Shale

Suzanne Shale is the Chair of the London Policing Ethics Panel. Suzanne is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London. She was formerly a Fellow of New College Oxford, University Lecturer in Law, and Director of the Oxford Learning Institute.Suzanne chairs the UK’s leading patient safety charity, Action against Medical Accidents, sits on the Department of Health’s Independent Reconfiguration Panel, and is a member of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch Advisory Panel. Her website is www.clearer-thinking.co.uk.

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