VeriLook (and Face Trace) in Slovenia

VeriLook (and Face Trace) in Slovenia
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Deployment Status	Ongoing
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City	Ljubljana
Country	Slovenia
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Technology Deployed	VeriLook, Face Trace
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Datasets Used	Record of photographed persons (Slovenia)
Deployment Type	Criminal investigations
runs search software
managed by	Ministry of Interior (Slovenia)
used by	Slovenian Police
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Deployment Purpose: Criminal investigations

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Products and Institutions:

Product Deployed	Face Trace VeriLook
Institutions ⠉	Unknown Institution 0036 Neurotechnology
Datasets	Record of photographed persons (Slovenia)
Search software

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Status	Ongoing
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Involved Entities
Managed by	Ministry of Interior (Slovenia)
Used by	Slovenian Police

Location:

City	Ljubljana
Country ⠉	Slovenia

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“Aggressive pensioners recognized on Facebook” claimed the headline in Slovenske novice, the biggest Slovenian print tabloid. A woman from Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital, left her car on a bicycle track. She left with the blinkers on, and she ran to a nearby restaurant. It only took her a minute to come back, the tabloid wrote, but her parked car had already annoyed an elderly couple.

The elderly man smashed one of the side mirrors with his fist and then tried to hit the woman as well. She took a photo of the couple with her phone and reported the attack to the police. She also published the photos on Facebook where some users said they recognized the violent couple.

The tabloid article mentioned that the police had been using a new piece of face-recognition software called Face Trace to find suspects using open source investigation methods (such as searching social media and other online sources).

The tabloid article was originally published in December 2015 – four years ahead of the AlgorithmWatch report on face recognition. The CEO of the company that developed the Face Trace software even linked the piece to his social media account. After a thorough research of the Slovenian media archives for this feature, I found one even earlier mention of Face Trace in one of the major Slovenian daily newspapers, Delo, where a journalist talked to the police operator who was responsible for face recognition in 2014.1

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