Facial recognition in civic space The campaign highlighted that algorithmic technologies, such as facial recognition scanners, are a form of mass surveillance that violates the right to privacy and threatens the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression. The use of AI and its underlying technologies can affect life in a wide range of areas, such as health, education, law enforcement, work and social responsibility. There are several issues that need to be considered because AI has the potential to violate human rights and undermine the laws that protect them. The use of big data in conjunction with AI can threaten the right to privacy because of the risk of increasing surveillance and monitoring.
Groups that have access to the most advanced artificial intelligence technology can search public records and other available data faster than anyone else. Searching for anyone, anywhere in the world, can be done in a matter of seconds.
Artificial intelligence
(AI) is one of those technical fields that is transforming human society into a society of robots and machines. States should impose moratoriums on the sale and use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems until adequate safeguards are in place, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday.Artificial intelligence (AI) has “enormous potential to improve the health of millions of people around the world if ethics and human rights are at the center of its design, deployment and use,” the director of the UN health agency said on Monday.
