Policy Observatory
Dutch police increasingly using facial recognition technology
The Dutch police has a facial recognition database containing "well over a million" faces of people taken into temporary detention (and consequently in the "strafrechtdatabase"). According to the news source, police ran approximately one thousand suspects through it, which led to 93 hits. There are at least three humans involved in the process as safeguarding measure: one before a photograph is fed through the algorithm to look at consider aspects such as the quality of the picture. Two humans are checking the results of the automated process. Furthermore, a hit is seen as in "indication" of someone's identity, not as definite proof.
Country: Netherlands
Domains: Privacy
Stakeholder: Government
Tags: safeguards, Netherlands, data protection, law enforcement, facial recognition