Dear all,

Public event on facial recognition technology at the Royal Society in London on 10 Sept that may be of interest to some list members. 6:30pm.

i’m joined on a panel by Clare Garvie (Georgetown University Law Center), Daragh Murray (Essex Human Rights Centre) and Reema Patel (Ada Lovelace Institute) to discuss US and UK developments around this tech and relevant human rights implications.

Free to attend and all welcome. Info and reg here:

https://hrbdt.ac.uk/facial-recognition-and-human-rights-panel-discussion-10-september-2019/

With very best wishes,
 
Pete
 


Professor Pete Fussey
Department of Sociology
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
UK
CO4 3SQ
+44 (0)1206 872748
@petefussey
 
Director, Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP): http://www.crisp-surveillance.com
 
Research Director, ESRC Project (2015-2020): Human Rights, Big Data and Technology: www.hrbdt.ac.uk

Recent outputs:
  • Fussey, P., and Murray, D. (2019) Independent Report on the London Metropolitan Police Service’s Trial of Live Facial Recognition Technology. Essex Human Rights Centre. Available here.
  • Murray, D., and Fussey, P. (2019) Bulk Surveillance in the Digital Age: Rethinking the Human Rights Law Approach to Bulk Monitoring of Communications Data. Israel Law Review. 52 (1), 31-60. Open access available here.

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