Some countries are now moving forward with new plans to combat violence in various cities as they attempt to ensure a peaceful environment, free of crime. Live Facial Recognition (LFR) is a technology that can help identify a person through a digital image. There are mandates in some countries to incorporate this technology in the Police Department for the preservation of law and order.
In the United States, according to a study by Business Insider (2019), the Live Facial Recognition has proven to be useful due to a large database of people collected by the United States Police Department. The approach here includes drawing up a list of suspect(s) who may have committed a crime in order to aid the decision-making process.
In conjunction with the advent of this new police technology, human rights advocates have raised an alarm about the potential threat to privacy, racial bias, and low accountability in the determination of the perpetrator. Similarly, one can glean that authorities may overstep their line while in possession of sensitive data. Hence, there must be a proper regulation of the data.
