Dr Qandeel, senior lecturer in legal science at Örebro University
Good to know
The seminar will be organized as a hybrid seminar, i.e. it wll be possible to participate on site at the department of Applied IT or via Zoom. Please send an email to Marie Eneman (marie.eneman@ait.gu.se) to get access to the Zoom link.
Organizer
Marie Eneman, Dept. of Applied IT
Abstract:
The development and use of face recognition technology (FRT) and affect recognition technology (ART) have been on the rise in the last decades. As with every technology, despite the pronounced potential, concerns and challenges to society and law propagate. Legally speaking, these concerns arise in relation to human rights, discrimination, privacy, criminalities, the rule of law and fundamental legal principles. These concerns are escorted with the question of responsibility, particularly in the absence of comprehensive legal frameworks in order to control and regulate the implications of new technologies such as FRT and ART. Today, FRT, for instance, is at the central debate of whether to be completely banned, limited or left unregulated.
This seminar directs the legal discussion to address how the law must step in, control and regulate the use of technologies though the examination of States' obligation/ responsibility to use their regulatory power. It first discusses States' international obligation – not a matter of choice – to domestically regulate the use of FRT and ART. Secondly, it examines biometric data collection and the use of FRT/ART from a human rights perspective. Thirdly, it describes the nature of States obligations in connection to FRT/ART and assesses the legal implications resulting from States failure to regulate such high-risk technologies.
