Half a million shoplifters can’t be right
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner When Napoleon said that we were a nation of shopkeepers,…
Articles By Fraser Sampson
Professor Fraser Sampson is a longtime Biometric Update columnist. He is the former UK Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner, Professor of Governance and National Security at CENTRIC, non-executive director at Facewatch, strategic advisor to the Alan Turing Institute's Centre for Emerging Technology and Security (CETaS). He is also the author of the Springer Nature book How AI-Driven Surveillance is Changing our World: Do Robots Have the Right to Remain Silent?, which explores the legal, ethical and societal implications of AI-driven surveillance.
Is this the perfect use case for police facial recognition?
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner As another report on facial recognition technology is published, picture…
Apologetic Intelligence – should bots handle complaints?
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner Can Artificial Intelligence be sincere? The ‘A’ in AI probably…
Should police AI have discretion?
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner “Discretion is the art of suiting action to circumstance –…
Caution urged as UK supermarkets check out facial recognition
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner In the same week the UK Prime Minister said shoplifting…
Can AI predict who will commit crime?
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner Will AI be able to tell us who is going…
Surveillance, identity and the right to go missing
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner Do we have a right to go missing? The global…
Do the police ever forget a face?
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner There is a neurological condition called prosopagnosia which the National Center…
Biometrics are the key to unlocking nuclear power
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner The world is racing towards a new nuclear future in…
Ducking ID fraud: An ABC for beating cyber-scammers
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner You know the saying: “If it looks like a duck,…
