Facial Recognition Surveillance

Pete Fussey is a Professor of Criminology at the University of Southampton and researches the human rights implications of advanced surveillance and other policing technologies. His other published work analyses digital sociology, algorithmic justice, and urban studies. He has authored work laid before the UN General Assembly; co-authored UN human rights standards on police technology at protests; and co-directed the ESRC Human Rights, Big Data and Technology project (2015-2023). Professor Fussey's research has featured on the front pages of The Guardian and Financial Times, and additionally covered by BBC Newsnight, PBS Newshour, The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC Radio 4 and others.Daragh Murray is a Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University London School of Law, and a Fellow of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences. He specialises in international human rights law and the law of armed conflict, with an interest in artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies. He has been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to examine the 'unintended consequences' of artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on understanding the links between surveillance and the processes central to individual's identity development and the evolution of democratic societies. He was previously a member of the UKRI funded Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project.

This book is a must read. Based on extensive ethnographic observations of one of the largest police forces in the world, the book undertakes two equally novel and important tasks. First, it conceptualises why the police's use of advanced surveillance technologies are capable of giving rise to compound human rights harms and sets out what a human rights due diligence framework to prevent such harms should look like. Second, it shows how algorithmic decision making undermines the exercise of police discretion with manifold consequences for human rights and policing culture. The result is a superb delivery of an evidence-based cautionary tale about the erosion of human rights based policing through the emergence of algorithmic classifications of suspicion.

• PART I. 1: The Emergence of Advanced Biometric Surveillance 2: The Form, Function, and Fallibilities of AI-Driven Surveillance 3: Human Rights Law Considerations Brought into Play by Public Surveillance PART II. 4: A Due Diligence Framework for Facial Recognition Technology 5: Identifying the Utility Linked to Facial Recognition Deployments 6: Metropolitan Police Service Efforts to Identify Potential Harm to Human Rights Associated with Live Facial Recognition Deployments 7: Deploying Facial Recognition Technology in London: Techno-Certainties and Operational Ambiguities 8: Human-Technology Interaction during Advanced Surveillance Operations 9: Conclusion: Facial Recognition as a Complex Socio-Technical Surveillance System