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Plans by the Minister for Justice and Garda Commissioner to introduce facial recognition on Garda bodycams have been dealt a blow by a European Parliament vote to ban almost all AI-backed facial recognition technology in public spaces.
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Public representatives and NGOs need time to analyse recommendations, says Irish Council for Civil Liberties
There were 285 incidents of Garda injuries last year - up from 243 cases the year before
ICCL last week highlighted security concerns about the cameras installed by the company Hikvision.
The introduction of ‘exclusion zones’ at refugee accommodation centres would deny people’s “constitutional right to peaceful protest”, the executive director an Irish civil liberties group has said.