Facial recognition reshaping suspicion
Research from Dr Daragh Murray was referenced in a Computer Weekly article about how live facial recognition creates a presumption to intervene.
The 2019 paper co-authored by Dr Murray is referenced in the article is the marks the first independent review into trials of LFR technology by the Metropolitan Police. The findings of the study show a “presumption to intervene” among police officers using the technology.
Evidence written to the Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee in September 2021, also co-authored by Dr Murray, was featured in the article. They write: “Any potential tendency to defer or over-rely on automated outputs over other available information has the ability to transform what is still considered to be a human-led decision to de facto an automated one”.
Dr Daragh Murray is Reader in International Law and Human Rights at Queen Mary University of London.
Read the full article on Computer Weekly.