Facial recognition research

  • Oct292020

    Surveillance Arbitration in the Era of Digital Policing

    By

    In their latest article, published in Theoretical Criminology (29 October 2020), Professor Pete Fussey and Dr Ajay Sandhu analyse the…

    Read more
  • Oct132020

    ‘Assisted’ Facial Recognition and the Reinvention of Suspicion and Discretion in Digital Policing

    By

    Automated facial recognition (AFR) surveillance has emerged as a particularly controversial technology among the growing armoury of digital policing tools. …

    Read more
  • Sep112020

    Essex Expertise Informs Facial Recognition Decision

    By

    The expertise and leading-edge research of three Essex academics has informed a landmark judgment on police use of facial recognition.…

    Read more
  • Aug182020

    When an Algorithm Gets It Wrong – Pete Fussey Interviewed for Police and Facial Recognition Podcast by MIT Technology Review

    By

    Project Co-Director Prof Pete Fussey was recently interviewed for ‘When an Algorithm Gets It Wrong’, the first in a four-part…

    Read more
  • Apr222020

    Right On – The Wednesday Web Chat

    By

    The HRBDT project is supporting a new digital initiative that aims to keep the Human Rights dialogue going during the…

    Read more
  • Mar052020

    Discussion Series: Live Facial Recognition

    By

    In July 2019 researchers from the Human Rights Big Data and Technology Project published the first independently-funded academic report into…

    Read more
  • Sep102019

    HRBDT Public Panel Discussion: “Facial Recognition and Human Rights” 10 September 2019

    By

    On 10 September the Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project hosted a panel discussion at The Royal Society on…

    Read more
  • Aug142019

    BBC Radio 4 Interview – Facial Recognition

    By

    Dr Daragh Murray was recently interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s PM programme.  Daragh highlighted the human rights and public interest considerations…

    Read more
  • Jul032019

    HRBDT Researchers Launch New Report on London Metropolitan Police’s Trial of Live Facial Recognition Technology

    By

    A new report by researchers from the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project, based at the University of Essex…

    Read more
  • May032019

    BBC Radio Essex Interview – Surveillance Technology

    By

    Professor Pete Fussey was recently interviewed on BBC Radio Essex talking about his role leading the new human rights, data…

    Read more