Security News > 2020 > February > EU Likely to Drop Plan to Ban Facial Recognition

The European Union appears to be moving toward dropping a temporary ban on the use of facial recognition technology in public places, according to news reports.

Some technology experts had said that a temporary ban on the use of facial recognition in public places would be impractical and ineffective.

"Focusing on ways to build in safeguards in facial recognition systems without resorting to a full-scale multiyear ban is much more pragmatic and reasonable," he says.

"At CNIL, we are not in favor of government using facial recognition anywhere and everywhere. However, we understand that the technology has its pros, and hence we are not looking at a complete ban on this. It certainly depends on the application of facial recognition."

In India, the National Crime Records Bureau, which is under the Union Home Ministry, has floated a plan for an automated facial recognition system to be used by law enforcement authorities, arguing that it would aid in the "Identification of criminals, missing children/persons, unidentified bodies and unknown traced children/persons."

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