Reading about AI in policing

Concerns with AI and Biometrics in Policing Name: Affiliation: Course: Instructor: Date: Concerns with AI and Biometrics in Policing Introduction Using biometric technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) in policing has become highly debatable, especially in Canada. New developments brought to light in a CBC News article discuss how police forces are constantly using these technologies. However, these tools refer to increased productivity, and relatively accurate results come with enormous ethical issues and adherence to regulations. Nevertheless, this essay will review the privacy, human rights, and legal implications of using biometrics and AI in policing, as well as the rationale for their regulation. Privacy Concerns Most issues surrounding the biometrics and AI systems in policing revolve around privacy violations. Parameters like face scans, fingerprints, and DNA are unique for every person and are used to identify a person without obtaining his voluntary consent. Issues that arise from the statistics collection, storage, and utilization include: who has access to this information, and how secure is it? Loss of data, theft, and scam through hacking is also a real possibility that can result in devastating privacy infringement, for example, through fake identity (Paliokosta, Stavroula - Tzaiin, 2024). This is highlighted by the article from CBC News, which captures that issues of how this data is processed are even less transparent. Human Rights Concerns Biometrics and AI make law enforcement highly intrusive, warranting human rights violations. For these reasons, these technologies can profile and discriminate against people or even monitor them at their own will (Lawless, 2023). For example, facial recognition systems ar...