Facewatch

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Facewatch is a UK-based company that provides real-time facial recognition analysis and biometric watchlists to shops, pubs, and other public venues. It also offers its services to the police.

The system is intended to identify shoplifters from a database of actual and suspected criminals, and to ensure safety, alerting customer employees when a suspect enters one of their stores or when a violent act occurs.

Facial recognition system

A facial recognition system is a technology potentially capable of matching a human face from a digital image or a video frame against a database of faces.

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Transparency and accountability ๐Ÿ™ˆ

Facewatch has been criticised for several transparency and accountability limitations:

Risks and harms ๐Ÿ›‘

The use of Facewatch's facial recognition system has sparked civil rights and privacy campaigners to express concerns about data rights and privacy, inadequate transparency, and the increasing use of surveillance technology in the private sector.

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Type: System
Published: January 2023
Last updated: June 2024