Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) used for active criminal case investigation may undermine democratic legitimacy.
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2023-01-27
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Facial recognition technology (FRT) used for active criminal case investigation has
been deployed by many police agencies around the world . The use of FRT in this context
provides hard evidence as well as economic- and time efficiencies. However, this use of
FRT also has some risks attached to it. This thesis will investigate how these risks might
undermine the democratic legitimacy. Keeping democratic legitimacy is very important
for a regime or government as it means that that regime or government is accepted by the
majority of people falling under that regime or government. If this is not the case, that
regime or government would face deadlock or collapse. Democratic legitimacy has three
different sources: political accountability, voice and due liberation. This thesis will discuss
the risks that FRT used in this context poses to the democratic legitimacy by linking the
risks to the sources of democratic legitimacy. It will then look into Super-Recognizers as
an alternative to the use of FRT in the context of criminal case investigation. The scope
of this thesis is limited to the risks associated with FRT in the context of criminal case
investigation, these risks might not apply to FRT used in other contexts. It also only
mentions risks that can be linked to the three sources of democratic legitimacy.
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Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen