CEO Avi Golan: “As a vendor of AI based facial recognition products for private companies and government agencies it is important for me to emphasise - facial recognition apps should be provided with an empty database”
Australia privacy regulator, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, has found that the scraping pictures and identities from social networks breached citizens’ privacy. “The covert collection of this kind of sensitive information is unreasonably intrusive and unfair,” said OAIC privacy commissioner Angelene Falk in a press statement. “It carries significant risk of harm to individuals, including vulnerable groups such as children and victims of crime.”
Facial recognition products
Oosto CEO Avi Golan: “Oosto endorses the Australian Government's decision. Scraping images of people from the web without their consent is, in our view, a serious violation of the right to privacy. As a vendor of AI based facial recognition products for private companies and government agencies it is important for me to emphasise - facial recognition apps should be provided with an empty database.”
Oosto, formally Anyvision, enables enterprises to better protect their customers, guests and employees
Oosto, formally Anyvision, enables enterprises to better protect their customers, guests and employees by identifying security and safety threats in real-time using Vision AI and facial recognition technology, without compromising on fair and ethical use. Organisations in the financial services, buildings, retail, health, sports and gaming are using Oosto’s visual AI platform to positively impact safety, productivity and customer experience. It's important to understand that they are alternative ethical approaches to facial recognition that do not require scraping images of people from social media, Google images, LinkedIn, Instagram, among others.
Specific security needs
Oosto's perspective is that biometrics should be deployed with empty databases, adequate safeguards for data and privacy need to be built into the technology, and improved operational due diligence needs to be adhered to. Oosto has employed safeguards including databases created from scratch by the customer organisation to meet their specific security needs, and the use of secure cryptography of any captured biometric data. Oosto points out that it also includes a ‘GDPR-mode’ which blurs the faces of people not appearing on the watchlist.
In September the British Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner, Professor Fraser Sampson has approached the public to consult on revisions to the Surveillance Camera Code of Practice. Oosto has responded in an open letter entitled: ‘Facial Recognition Apps Should Be Provided to the Police with an Empty Database.’
- Network / IP
- Biometrics
- Shop security systems
- Mall security
- Shopping centre security
- Security devices
- Security cameras
- Covert cameras
- Security camera systems
- Voice recognition systems
- Facial recognition systems
- Identity management
- Store security
- Store surveillance
- Public security
- Network cameras
- Physical Security Information Management (PSIM)
- Covert Surveillance
- Body worn video cameras
- GDPR
