Facial Recognition including Clearview AI used by New Zealand Police Forces

Facial Recognition including Clearview AI used by New Zealand Police Forces
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Deployment Status	Ongoing
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City	Wellington
Country	New Zealand
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Technology Deployed	Briefcam (Software), Cellebrite (Software), Clearview AI (Software), NEC Palm Print Recognition, NEC Fingerprint Recognition, NeoFace Watch
Information Certainty	Documented
Primary sources	1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Datasets Used	Clearview AI (Dataset), NEC (Dataset), Unknown Dataset 0036, NEC Neoface (Dataset)
Deployment Type	Surveillance
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managed by	New Zealand Police
used by	New Zealand Police
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Information Certainty: Documented

Deployment Purpose: Surveillance

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Products and Institutions:

Product Deployed	Briefcam (Software) NeoFace Watch Clearview AI (Software) Cellebrite (Software) NEC Palm Print Recognition NEC Fingerprint Recognition
Institutions ⠉	Briefcam Ltd NEC Clearview AI Cellebrite NEC NEC
Datasets	Clearview AI (Dataset) Unknown Dataset 0036 NEC (Dataset) NEC Neoface (Dataset)
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Status	Ongoing
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Managed by	New Zealand Police
Used by	New Zealand Police

Location:

City	Wellington
Country ⠉	New Zealand

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Description

Following an independent audit of New Zealand police force in 2020, it was found that the force had been using multiple forms of surveillance technologies, some of which involve facial recognition. It is difficult to determine when the forces would have started using them, some had been in place for many years. The government was apparently not aware of their use. The police also were found to have trialled Clearview AI.

According to the report, the tools were revealed in a police stocktake made available under the Official Information Act after futile attempts to delete it. Tools found in the stocktake include Cellebrite, which searches lawfully seized cell phones and extracts images which can be used for facial recognition, BriefCam, which spots faces or vehicle movement in CCTV footage hundreds of times faster than previously, NewX and other tools used to automatically identify number plates of vehicles as well as track crime related to child abuses 3

Police said their version of BriefCam could not take live CCTV feeds - instead it was used retrospectively, initiated by a small number of forensic staff, who then let investigators see the results if need be. When they already had a face or car in a photo, they then scanned the footage for that. Such searching protected privacy more than a manual search, by zipping over what was not relevant, police said.The aim is to analyse CCTV footage hundreds of times faster than previously, for what police call a "known face or a car movement". 4

Police would not say what they used Clearview AI for in the trial, or who had access to it. Clearview, which has been used in the US to solve everything from mailbox thefts to cases of child sexual abuse, did not respond to questions about its relationship with New Zealand police 2

Police stated they would no longer use live facial recognition in 2020. However they still use it for footage. In 2022, New Zealand Police are listed as a client of NEC for fingerprinting, palm identification and facial recognition.

An independent review has provided Police with detailed advice on the opportunities and risks associated with the use of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT). In responding to the review Police has decided it will not use live Facial Recognition technology without further detailed analysis, taking account of legal, privacy and human rights concerns – with a particular focus on the New Zealand context 1

NEC has particularly close relationships with Police Law Enforcement and several central agencies for specific solutions such as those using Facial Recognition, passport image capture and matching and for border control 5

New Zealand Police/Law Enforcement: Using NEC Fingerprint and Palm Print recognition solutions including LiveScan Kiosks 5

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