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Facial recognition surveillance : policing and human rights in the age of artificial intelligence /

This text explores the impact of facial recognition technology (FRT) on policing, surveillance, and human rights. It reveals how FRT reshapes police-citizen interactions and introduces frameworks to address its complex effects.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fussey, Peter (Author), Murray, Daragh (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Series:Clarendon studies in criminology.
Subjects:
Human face recognition (Computer science)
Electronic surveillance.
Criminal investigation.
Privacy, Right of.
Reconnaissance faciale (Informatique)
Surveillance électronique.
Enquêtes criminelles.
Criminal Procedure.
LAW.
Privacy.
Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Criminal investigation
Electronic surveillance
Privacy, Right of
Social services & welfare, criminology.
True Crime.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Advance Praise
  • Dedication
  • Epigraph
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Table of Cases
  • Table of Legislation
  • Abbreviations and Glossary
  • Introduction
  • Methodology
  • The Book
  • PART I SURVEILLANCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN CONTEXT
  • 1 The Emergence of Advanced Biometric Surveillance
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Urban Legends: Rendering and Ordering Dangerousness through Surveillance
  • 1.2.1 Pluralizing Control
  • 1.3 Physical and Digital Ordering of the City
  • 1.3.1 Reordering the Physical and Social Landscape
  • 1.3.2 Digitally Ordering the City
  • 1.3.3 Overt Urban Surveillance
  • 1.4 The Growth, Practice, and Theory of Facial Recognition Surveillance
  • 1.4.1 Origins
  • 1.4.2 Capital Experiments
  • 1.4.2.1 Human and digital recognition
  • 1.4.2.2 'It's bullshit': seeking Bertillon, finding Bachelard
  • 1.4.3 Inception and 'The AI Revolution' in Policing
  • 1.4.4 Conceptualizing the Growth of Surveillance
  • 1.5 Conclusions
  • 2 The Form, Function, and Fallibilities of AI-Driven Surveillance
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Falsehoods and Fallibilities
  • 2.2.1 Digital Deficiencies and the Reproduction of Error
  • 2.2.2 Bias in the Machine
  • 2.2.3 Measuring Performance
  • 2.3 New Frontiers of Surveillance: Biometric Data and the Production of Meaning
  • 2.3.1 The Body: Towards a New 'Corporeality'?
  • 2.3.2 The Soul: Revealing Hearts of Darkness
  • 2.3.3 The Mind: Digital Truth Claims and a World Shaped through Technology
  • 2.4 Conclusions
  • 3 Human Rights Law Considerations Brought into Play by Public Surveillance
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Determining Whether a Human Rights Interference Is Lawful
  • 3.2.1 In Accordance with the Law
  • 3.2.2 In Pursuit of a Legitimate Aim
  • 3.2.3 Necessary in a Democratic Society
  • 3.3 Rights Brought into Play by Facial Recognition Technology
  • 3.3.1 The Right to Privacy
  • 3.3.2 The Prohibition of Discrimination
  • 3.3.3 The Right to a Human Decision-Maker?
  • 3.3.4 The Right to Freedom of Expression
  • 3.3.5 The Right to Freedom of Assembly
  • 3.3.6 Compound Human Rights Harm
  • 3.4 Conclusions
  • PART II BIOMETRIC SURVEILLANCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS THROUGH POLICY, LAW, AND ACTION
  • 4 A Due Diligence Framework for Facial Recognition Technology
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 The Implied Legal Basis Underpinning a Human Rights Due Diligence Framework
  • 4.3 The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
  • 4.4 Reverse Engineering the 'Necessary in a Democratic Society' Test
  • 4.4.1 Demonstrating Utility
  • 4.4.1.1 Establishing 'what' the objective underpinning a facial recognition deployment is
  • 4.4.1.2 Demonstrating 'why' achieving the identified objective is necessary
  • 4.4.1.3 Setting out 'how' facial recognition technology will be deployed
  • 4.4.1.4 Why FRT?
  • 4.4.2 Identifying Harm
  • 4.4.2.1 The prohibition of discrimination