Makes sense …cop car drives around…. Camera scans vehicle ahead’s rego, checks registered owners history and starts flashing “we got a live one here …”…
There's a great debate raging around how this AI technolgy is being used.
WA is now testing biometric facial-recognition systems that alert the system to who you are and whether you have a record.
Whilst this sounds like a system that could keep citizens safer, it also opens a Pandora's box of privacy issues. There have been multiple cases of police officers stalking ex-partners in the UK and the US.
In China, they have been using this technology since 2001, and it led to the social rating system. So, if you have ever gotten into a verbal altercation or a fight, been caught with drugs, or even jaywalked, you lose points on your social rating score. This applies to children too, as well as their parents.
The social rating is ranked and can lead to a person not being able to access health services, housing, or the ability to travel. If you dip below a certain level, you are also forced to work in a predetermined job.
The problem is, if you're wrongly convicted of a crime, it is still on your social record in China.
George Orwell was right when he wrote about Big Brother.
Use of Overt Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology as a powerful tool for the prevention and detection of crime, finding missing persons, and the protection of the public.
www.wa.gov.au
