Sarabdeen Jawahitha
College of Law, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Heliyon. 2022 Mar 11;8(3):e09086. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09086. eCollection 2022 Mar.
The Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) is used to match a photo of a person's face through a database that contains picture, name, and other records of someone that are already in the database. This technology uses biometric data with other available information and provides precise and accurate information about a person and his behaviour. FRT has positioned itself significantly advanced among all biometric-based technologies. The use of FRT by government agencies and commercial organisation comes under scrutiny as many of them use the technology in violation of right to privacy where the data subjects are either not informed of data collection or not consented for the data collection, use or storage of their data. Privation of regulatory measures allows government agencies and commercial organisations to operate with no real legal restraint and only under limited self-regulation in many common law countries. The research focuses on suitability of the existing law to regulate the use of FRT by analysing the criminal law and the civil law including the privacy laws in few common law countries. The analysis of the laws shows that passing of appropriate laws is inevitable as the existing laws are inadequate to regulate the use of FRT by government and commercial organisations.
面部识别技术（FRT）用于通过一个数据库来匹配某人的面部照片，该数据库包含已在其中的人员的照片、姓名及其他记录。这项技术将生物识别数据与其他可用信息相结合，提供有关一个人和他行为的精确准确信息。FRT在所有基于生物识别的技术中已占据显著领先地位。政府机构和商业组织对FRT的使用受到审查，因为其中许多机构使用该技术侵犯了隐私权，数据主体要么未被告知数据收集情况，要么未同意其数据的收集、使用或存储。在许多普通法国家，缺乏监管措施使得政府机构和商业组织在没有真正法律约束的情况下运营，仅在有限的自我监管下开展活动。该研究通过分析少数普通法国家的刑法和民法（包括隐私法），聚焦于现行法律对规范FRT使用的适用性。法律分析表明，由于现行法律不足以规范政府和商业组织对FRT的使用，通过适当的法律势在必行。
