{"id":3612,"date":"2022-08-07T17:54:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T11:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2022-08-07T17:54:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T11:54:17","slug":"smartwatches-to-be-used-to-monitor-migrant-offenders-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/tech\/2022\/08\/07\/news\/3612\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartwatches to be used to monitor migrant offenders in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3613\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3613\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/smartwatch-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The individuals will be required to scan their faces using the smartwatches up to five times a day. (Shutterstock\/File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LONDON, Broadcasting News Corporation : The UK Home Office and Ministry of Justice announced on Friday that migrants who have been convicted of a criminal offense will soon be required to scan their faces using facial recognition technology. The Home Office said that the scheme will involve \u201cdaily monitoring of individuals subject to immigration control,\u201d with the requirement to wear either a fitted ankle tag or a smartwatch at all times.<br \/>\nThe individuals will be required to scan their faces using the smartwatches up to five times a day. Information including their names, date of birth, nationality and photographs will be stored for up to six years.<br \/>\nLocations of migrant offenders will also be tracked 24\/7. The data will be shared with the Home Office, MoJ and the police, with Home Office officials stressing: \u201cThe sharing of this data (to) police colleagues is not new.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Home Office added that the smartwatch scheme will be for foreign-national offenders who have been convicted of a criminal offense, rather than other groups such as asylum seekers. Critics highlighted that the surveillance scheme is a clear breach of human rights, and is likely to impact asylum seekers\u2019 mental health. \u201cFacial recognition is known to be an imperfect and dangerous technology that tends to discriminate against people of color and marginalized communities,\u201d said Lucie Audibert, a lawyer and legal officer for Privacy International. \u201cThese \u2018innovations\u2019 in policing and surveillance are often driven by private companies, who profit from governments\u2019 race toward total surveillance and control of populations.\u201d \u201cThrough their opaque technologies and algorithms, they facilitate government discrimination and human rights abuses without any accountability. No other country in Europe has deployed this dehumanizing and invasive technology against migrants,\u201d she said. According to the UK government website, the Ministry of Justice had awarded a \u00a36 million contract to British technology company \u2018Buddi Limited\u2019 in May to supply electronic monitoring non-fitted devices \u201cto support implementation of the Home Office Satellite Tracking Service for specific cohorts.\u201d<br \/>\nThis service, introduced in 2018, uses satellite technology to monitor foreign offenders awaiting deportation. \u201cA non-fitted device solution will provide a more proportionate way of monitoring specific cohorts over extended periods of time than fitted tags,\u201d the statement on the website reads. \u201cThese devices will utilize periodic biometric verification as an alternative to being fitted to an individual.\u201d News collected from ARAB NEWS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, Broadcasting News Corporation : The UK Home Office and Ministry of Justice announced on Friday that migrants who have been convicted of a criminal offense will soon be required to scan their faces using facial recognition technology. The Home Office said that the scheme will involve \u201cdaily monitoring of individuals subject to immigration control,\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3614,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions\/3614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}