{"id":59983,"date":"2022-04-12T14:23:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T11:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=59983"},"modified":"2025-09-05T00:55:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:55:21","slug":"eu-to-create-a-unified-database-for-facial-recognition-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/eu-to-create-a-unified-database-for-facial-recognition-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"EU to create a unified database for facial-recognition systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission <a href=\\\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/home-affairs\/news\/boosting-police-cooperation-across-borders-enhanced-security-2021-12-08_en\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\\\">plans<\/a> to create a vast database for facial recognition, to be shared with law enforcement agencies of EU member states.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The authors of the document note \\&#8221;great potential\\&#8221; of the initiative. Many EU countries already store millions of citizens&#8217; photographs: in Hungary 30 million photographs, in Italy 17 million, in France 6 million, in Germany 5.5 million. These images range from suspects to asylum seekers.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Rights advocates have expressed concerns about the European Commission&#8217;s plans.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\\&#8221;This is the most extensive biometric surveillance infrastructure that I think we have ever seen in the world,\\&#8221; said Ella Jakubowska, policy adviser for the non-governmental rights organisation European Digital Rights.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>A EU spokesperson said that countries may exchange only images of faces of suspects or convicted criminals within the framework of Pr\u00fcm II.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\\&#8221;There will be no matching of facial images to the general population,\\&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 15 years, under the Pr\u00fcm II framework, European police have exchanged information such as fingerprints and DNA in the course of criminal investigations.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>In April 2021, the European Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/calls-to-ban-clearview-ai-a-robot-that-thinks-aloud-and-other-ai-news\">presented a bill regulating the use of AI<\/a> in the EU.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The new rules prohibit law enforcement agencies from using facial recognition\u2014except in cases of \\&#8221;serious crimes,\\&#8221; which, according to the Commission, could include terrorism-related cases.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>In the same month the European Data Protection Supervisor <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/european-data-protection-supervisor-calls-for-ban-on-facial-recognition\">called for banning the technology without any exemptions<\/a> because of its \\&#8221;deep and undemocratic intrusion\\&#8221; into people&#8217;s private lives.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>In June, a group of 55 human-rights organisations <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/experts-eu-ai-rules-could-open-the-door-to-mass-surveillance\">criticised the bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s Telegram news: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\\\">ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission plans to create a vast database for facial recognition, to be shared with law enforcement agencies of EU member states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,733,1515],"class_list":["post-59983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-europe","tag-tracking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59985,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59983\/revisions\/59985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}