Christensen, Nanna Hedegaard

Christensen, Nicolay Eigil

Jørgensen, Oliver Lunding

Lindqvist, Sarah Elisabeth Kall

Nielsen, Jeppe Brøgger

The purpose of this project is to explain the technology facial recognition (FRT) and CCTV in a technological system. Furthermore, to examine if the citizens in the Danish society changes their behaviour because of the increased amount of surveillance in public spaces.CCTV and surveillance have seen a rapid growth since the 1980’s in Denmark. Adding FRT to CCTV has been a heated subject of discussion over the last few years due to privacy regulations, data protections and a potential general lack of understanding of the technology. The project group find this particular problem very interesting.In late 2019 the Danish government issued a proposal for increasing the use of CCTV and surveillance to make the society safer (Hækkerup, 2019a). In lieu of this the Danish police department also expressed interest in adding FRT to CCTV (Nielsen, 2019).However, research shows that FRT might not be as efficient as the police claims. Furthermore, it can be worrisome when it comes to potential abuse of the technology in question. This project wish to examine the technology closer and based on current research and theories make an educated assessment on the actual success of implementing FRT with CCTV for criminal purposes, whether it be crime prevention and/or detection.Through the use of the TRIN-model (Jørgensen, 2019, s.2) and peer reviewed research this project will examine and analyse FRT and CCTV.With the use of theories by Michel Foucault, David Lyon and Jared Diamond this project wishes to examine and discuss a potential behaviour change when the subject is under surveillance.Through empirical methods, a quantitative questionnaire, this project has found its main foundation for an examination of the Danes attitude towards surveillance in general and FRT. With this data an analysis and a comparative data analysis has been executed.This project also consists of an innovation analysis of FRT based on Everett Rogers’ theory on diffusion of innovation (Rogers, 2003).The discussion is based on previous finds in both pros and cons of the technology, and how Benjamin Hale (2005) fears this technology might affect the citizens behaviour. This is then discussed in comparison to the theory of panopticon, electronic panopticon and the results of the data analysis.In conclusion, this project finds that the FRT might not quite be on par with the expectations yet, when it comes to cost and database access. However, when used in context with a “bespoke” watch list, as it is in London and on Brøndby Stadion, the technology performs considerably better. As for the subject, it is hard to say if there is a real change in behaviour or not as the subjects investigated do not fear the surveillance as they do not feel they have done anything noticeable wrong and therefor there will be no consequences

Facial Recognition Technology & CCTV

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