KASTU (Finland)

KASTU (Finland)
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Deployment Status	Ongoing
Deployment Start Date
Deployment End Date
Events	* uses Record type Property:Has event ? (1 May 2020, Documented, ?, No description) uses Record type Property:Has event ? (?, Documented, ?, No description)
City	Helsinki
Country	Finland
Involved Entities
Keywords
Technology Deployed
Information Certainty	Documented
Primary sources
Datasets Used	Finnish Aliens Database, Vitja-RETU
Deployment Type
runs search software
managed by	National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)
used by	Finnish Border Guard, Finnish Customs, Finnish Police
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Products and Institutions:

Product Deployed
Institutions ⠉
Datasets	Finnish Aliens Database Vitja-RETU
Search software

Status and Events:

Status	Ongoing
Events	? (1 May 2020, Documented, ?, No description) ? (?, Documented, ?, No description)
Start Date
End Date

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Involved Entities
Managed by	National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)
Used by	Finnish Police Finnish Border Guard Finnish Customs

Location:

City	Helsinki
Country ⠉	Finland

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Description

KASTU is a one-to-many (1:N) facial recognition system that is intended to be utilized by the police and also by the Border Guard and Customs. The use of KASTU is allowed if criminal investigation is ongoing and if the suspect’s identity can’t be uncovered otherwise (such as with a phone number or witness testimonies).

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After running the search with a certain facial image, KASTU provides a photo-ID that can be used to find the suspect from the police’s Vitja-RETU register that has over 100 000 images of already convicted or suspected criminals.

The use of KASTU is legally allowed in investigation and surveillance operations as well as operations related to preventing or unveiling crimes. Furthermore, the police have the right to use KASTU with the Aliens database where facial images collected from asylum seekers and aliens are entered. Searches in this database are only allowed when it is necessary to prevent, unveil or solve the following crimes listed in the Penal Code (39/1889):

• War-, treachery- and treason crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against political rights (Articles 11–14)

• Riot and violent riot (Article 17(2–4)), state border offense (17(7)), territorial violation (17(7c)) and arrangement of gross illegal entry (17(8a))

• Aggravated destruction (Article 34(3)), aggravated endangerment of health (34(5)) and terrorism crimes (Article 34a)

• Regulation or aggravated regulation crimes (Article 46 (1–2)).

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