NEC Face Recognition Search Engine in Hungary

NEC Face Recognition Search Engine in Hungary
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Deployment Status	Ongoing
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City	Budapest
Country	Hungary
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Keywords	Facial Recognition
Technology Deployed	NEC Face Recognition Technology
Information Certainty	Documented
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Datasets Used	Facial Image Registry (Hungary)
Deployment Type	Criminal investigations
runs search software
managed by	Ministry of Interior (Hungary)
used by	National Investigation Agency (Hungary), Criminal Courts and the Prosecution Service (Hungary), National Protective Service (Hungary), Counter-Terrorism Centre (Hungary), Hungarian Prison Service (Hungary), The body conducting the criminal proceedings (Hungary), The Public Administration (Hungary), Special Service for National Security (Hungary), Intelligence Agencies (Hungary), Hungarian Police, The Hungarian Parliamentary Guard, The Hungarian Authority who Provides Legal Aid, Witness Protection Service (Hungary), National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing (Hungary), The Hungarian Authority dealing with citizenship matters
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Information Certainty: Documented

Deployment Purpose: Criminal investigations

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Products and Institutions:

Product Deployed	NEC Face Recognition Technology
Institutions ⠉	NEC
Datasets	Facial Image Registry (Hungary)
Search software

Status and Events:

Status	Ongoing
Events
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Involved Entities
Managed by	Ministry of Interior (Hungary)
Used by	National Investigation Agency (Hungary) National Protective Service (Hungary) Counter-Terrorism Centre (Hungary) Hungarian Prison Service (Hungary) The Public Administration (Hungary) Special Service for National Security (Hungary) Intelligence Agencies (Hungary) Hungarian Police The Hungarian Parliamentary Guard Witness Protection Service (Hungary) National Directorate-General for Aliens Policing (Hungary) The Prosecution Service of Hungary Hungarian Ministry of Justice Institution of the President of the Republic (Hungary) Criminal Courts (Hungary)

Location:

City	Budapest
Country ⠉	Hungary

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Description

The search engine used for FR was purchased from and implemented by NEC. The searches are performed by analysts of the Hungarian Institute for Forensic Sciences (HIFS). The number of analysts is 27 who, in addition to facial image searches, carry out manual 1:1 facial image comparisons.

According to the Act CLXXXVIII of 2015 Facial Image Analysis Register and Facial Image Analysis System Article 9, the following authorities can submit search requests: [see list in Institutions]

As of February 2020, 8615 people are allowed to submit search requests, 7924 people can view search results and 1121 people are mandated to submit urgent requests.

The requesting authority submits a questioned image to H IFS to be searched against the Facial Image Registry. Usually, these images are still images from CCTV footage. Analysts at HIFS make biometric templates from the images received and perform the database searches.

As a rule, a list with 1000 candidates is returned and processed. Nevertheless, the number of posts in the candidate list can be changed by the analyst depending on the specific case. Further, the candidate list can include several images of the same person. The candidates are evaluated by human. No specified score threshold for the match value and no "lights out" computer-based evaluation is used. The decision, whether there is a match or not, is made by more than two FR analysts. Two analysts, independently from each other, perform the search, come up with a candidate list and evaluate the candidates. Both lists are sent to a lead analyst, who makes the final decision.

Results are reported back to the requesting authority either as a "match" or "no match" within 8 working days from receiving a search request. In the case of a "match", the candidate(s) is/are sent to the requester as a reference described in Section 1.3.1. Biographic data of a person of interest can then be accessed in the source database using the reference number.

In the case of "no match", information that the search ended in no potential candidates is presented.

FR search results are used only as an investigative lead and they cannot be used as evidence in court.1

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