Finland
Finnish Police and Customs were granted permission to use automatic facial recognition technology at the beginning of June 2019. The Finnish Border Guard has had the right to use this tech since 2005 as part of the automation of passport checking (1:1 verification of a passenger's face to the chip in their passport). In addition to these technologies, the police are also testing an object recognition system which can be used to recognize, for instance, specific objects in robbery situations.
Currently, the Border Guard doesn't use 1:N identification although it has the right to use KASTU in investigation operations and in operations related to preventing or unveiling a crime. The supplier of Helsinki-Vantaa’s FR system and the algorithm that it runs on is Vision-Box S.A. – other technical details of the Border Guard’s surveillance systems are confidential.
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Authorities said that despite having the permission to use the software, Finland's current tech infrastructure doesn't yet support the use of automatic facial recognition. Currently, humans — and not artificial intelligence programs — handle surveillance camera images, according to the police and customs.
References
- ^ | "Finnish police, customs now able to use facial ID tech, but infrastructure not in place". (2019) <https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finnish_police_customs_now_able_to_use_facial_id_tech_but_infrastructure_not_in_place/10818526> Accessed: 2021-03-25