Dr Andrew Chen: ‘There is an over-emphasis on bias as the source of the problem with Facial Recognition Technology’

9th September 2024James Sweetland, Policing Insight

Policing Insight’s recent ‘Facing the future: the rise of facial recognition in policing’ report drew on 34 interviews with operational leaders and experts to examine how facial recognition (FR) is being used by police around the world and the key debates about the technology; as part of that project, James Sweetland interviewed Dr Andrew Chen, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Auckland about New Zealand Police’s approach to this technology and the debate around accuracy and bias – in this article, we share more from that insightful conversation.

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Dr Andrew Chen: ‘There is an over-emphasis on bias as the source of the problem with Facial Recognition Technology’

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