As the rollout of the facial recognition surveillance system intensifies and concerns grow over misuse and the invasion of privacy, the government says there should be no fear and that legislation is coming.
“Legislation will have to be passed in Parliament to entrench safeguards concerning the use of facial technology. I remember requesting from the AG’s office that legislative pre-cedents in other, especially Commonwealth, countries be used to draft our law here. The reason was that indeed facial recognition technology can be a serious threat to privacy and can possibly result in errors which can implicate innocent people, and the manipulation that can occur by bad actors,” former APNU+AFC Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan told the Sunday Stabroek.
