Expert opinions on Surveillance

We Must End AI-Powered Mass Surveillance, Not Switch Vendors. [...] ALPR’s don’t need a marketing rebrand – they need to be banned.

This has effectively given police a very long leash to experiment with these technologies. And now we're in a tipping point situation where it's about to be expanded all over the country, and there's a real necessity for those legal frameworks to be ...

We ask them to work with the communities using this technology to decide what rules should govern it and not to spread misinformation or ban a critical public safety tool outright that is helping to make communities safer.

Governments should be prohibited from using AI systems for mass surveillance. The right to privacy is a fundamental right we outline in our Declaration of Digital Rights. Data brokers and negligent data practices have allowed large amounts of persona...

The use of live facial recognition in our public spaces is an extraordinary expansion of state power that currently exists in a legal vacuum. We are not Luddites on these Benches; we recognise the utility of technology, but we must ensure that live f...

I have grave concerns that banning technology until it is legislated will choke innovation, it will drive genuine use cases away, and as technology is always developing, are we not in danger of ‘tomorrow never comes’ when it comes to legislation keep...

Noting concerns regarding the possibility of feedback loops, and the self-fulfilling prophecy of directing police attention to specific areas or individuals on the basis of historical data that may perpetuate patterns of over-policing, Member States ...

Artificial intelligence, digital forensics, and geospatial intelligence are transforming how we anticipate threats and conduct investigations.