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[To Eurosmart members only]
Guidelines on the use of facial recognition technology in the area of law enforcement
On 12 May, the European Data Protection Board* (EDPB) adopted Guidelines on the use of facial recognition technology in the area of law enforcement. The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to the EU and national policymakers, as well as to law enforcement authorities.
The EDPB recommends banning facial recognition in the following cases:
-remote biometric identification of individuals in publicly accessible spaces;
-facial recognition systems categorising individuals based on their biometrics into clusters according to ethnicity, gender, as well as political or sexual orientation or other grounds for discrimination;
-facial recognition or similar technologies to infer emotions of a natural person;
-processing of personal data in a law enforcement context that would rely on a database populated by collection of personal data on a mass-scale and in an indiscriminate way, e.g. by "scraping" photographs and facial pictures accessible online.
Please find below the link to the Guidelines. It is possible to provide feedback until 27 June.
*composed of representatives from national data protection authorities
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