The plan to install the cameras, which will be linked to facial recognition software, is raising privacy fears among security experts and rights groups. But Ian Wilson, a security lecturer at Australia’s Murdoch University said he believed that Singapore’s would be different in that it might involve extensive facial recognition technology. Adam Schwartz, senior staff attorney at the US-based rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, urged Singapore and other governments not to adopt facial recognition surveillance technology, in a response to a request for comment from Reuters. Facial recognition technology typically allows authorities to match people picked up on cameras with those in databases. The company says its facial recognition platform is capable of identifying over 1.8 billion faces in less than 3 seconds.

Source: The Express Tribune April 13, 2018 10:41 UTC