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Italy outlaws facial recognition tech, except to fight crime
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoWatch the definition of "fighting crime" expand rapidly.
- mdp2021 4y agoThe specification about «fighting crime» seems to be there to directly exclude other petty purposes, while the legal constraints are waiting for better definition. Anyway, I could not find better articles to clarify the point.
- mdp2021 4y ago> Italy['s] Data Protection Agency issued a rebuke to two municipalities experimenting with the technologies: «The moratorium arises from the need to regulate eligibility requirements, conditions and guarantees relating to facial recognition, in compliance with the principle of proportionality» > The agency was reacting to measures taken in the southern Italian city of Lecce, where authorities said they would begin using a technology based on facial recognition [...] The privacy watchdog also targeted the Tuscan city of Arezzo, where local police were due to be equipped with infrared super glasses that can recognise car number plates