Since 2017, more than 132 countries have experienced significant protests. If you’ve attended a protest, there’s a good chance the local police have collected data about you without you knowing.
Recently, we have seen how live facial recognition technology, which matches images captured by cameras against facial images held in databases, is being used to police more and more public events, particularly protest.
In Russia, facial recognition technology in metro stations has been used to track and arrest peaceful protesters.
In Iran, it’s being used to monitor hijab compliance following the recent protests supporting the rights of women not to cover their heads.
Deploying FRT in protests risks normalising surveillance, has a chilling impact on the exercise of our right to protest, and leaves our facial data open to abuse by the police or others.
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