Ethics, Sustainability and Social Impact of Facial Recognition Technology in the UK

Ethics, Sustainability and
Social Impact

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Overview of the use of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) in UK.......................................1
The ethics of Facial Recognition Technology............................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The use of technology is being increased in several sectors that helps in using
informations with the storage facility in an effective and efficient way. Mainly police has used
facial recognition technology in order to identified missing persons or criminals so that the work
of police can become more efficient and easier. Through the use of FRT by police in crowded
area such as metro stations, streets, shopping centres, festival celebrations and cultural events in
order to identifying criminals. This technology uses specific software that assist in mapping
facial characteristics of individuals by capturing images through the use of cameras, then the
biometric maps are matched along with the facial maps of people who are criminal or offender so
that suspects can be find out easily. Facial recognition technology can be in used by police forces
of UK in order to find criminals among large population quickly and easily. In this assignment,
the use of technology in UK are discussed along with the controversy on the use of facial
recognition technology. It can be done for analysing the social impact of ethical and sustainable
use of FRT. In addition, several theories of justice related to the ethical usage of technology are
discussed with the principles of these theories in the use of facial recognition technology.
MAIN BODY
Overview of the use of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) in UK.
FRT is considered as a system that helps in verifying an individual from the digital image
it includes advanced human computer interaction, video database, video surveillance and so
many others (Bush, Bush and Orr, 2015). In UK the police force use this technology in order to
scan faces for see if they are criminal. The global presence of Facial Recognition Technology is
a growing one as Europe has second largest market share and many of the biggest FRT
companies are founded within it.
Current and potential uses of FRT:
Currently, there are mainly three markets in which FRT is predominantly being used such
as authentication, analysis and security. Within the United Kingdom, police have been testing
facial recognition technology in the CCTV cameras as a security measures (Demiris, Doorenbos
and Towle, 2019). It has been used for scanning the faces in crowd against police database and
containing electronic missing person system in order to find out those who have an outstanding
arrest or offenders and prohibited from attending. Whereas, the use of FRT in authentication is a
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