British police plan to scan the face of an estimated 170 thousand fans who will come to watch the UEFA Champions League final

It is the highest peak of European footballUEFA Champions LeagueThe 2016-2017 seeds of the 2016-2017 season are also in full bloom, leaving only the final to be held in May, the semi-finals to be held in May and the capital of Cardiff in the UK and Wales. In the semifinalsLast Final CardIt is also one of the world's best derby matchesMadrid derbyIn the stage of the final in which the two teams who won the semi-finals collide, Wales is planning to detect criminal suspects by local police using face authentication.

British Cops Will Scan Every Fan's Face at the Champions League Final - Motherboard
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In the final of the UEFA Champions League, football fans from all over the world play cardiffMillennium StadiumI will visit. According to this final match, Cardiff has installed a surveillance camera in the stadium and the city.

Government procurement by South Wales policeAccording to the information, this face authentication system will be deployed inside the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff's main railway station and the central urban area, and further around it. Although the stadium has a capacity of 74,500 people, an estimated 170 thousand people are expected to visit the city of Cardiff when the final of June 3 is held. According to the information obtained from the stakeholders of the web media Motherboard, the deployed camera scans the face of an estimated 170,000 visitors on June 3 and checks with the criminal suspect database in real time .


The UK is known as a surveillance camera powerhouse, and over 3 million surveillance cameras are deployed in town. Such United Kingdom concerning the use of surveillance camera in March, 2017National strategyI just announced. When Motherboard told Mr. Tony Porter who is the surveillance camera commissioner of the government, they talked to each other by e-mail, and Japan representative Shinji Kagawa belongs in the UEFA Champions League quarter finalsCase where Borussia · Dortmund's team bus was blown upThe British police said that it was decided to consider using automatic face recognition device (AFR).

However,Implementation rules for surveillance camPorter said that AFR will be operated in a form that is in compliance with. In fact, "We have confirmed that our office complies with the implementation rules for using AFR, so we were in close contact with South Wales police for that," he said.

In addition, Porter said, "Since the use case of AFR has increased in the past few years, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a report that" face authentication is a challenging face ". In order to obtain accurate results it is necessary to have good algorithms and design efforts, expert teams across other fields, small size image databases, field tests to properly coordinate and optimize technology "We are commenting that they also understand that accuracy of face authentication is regarded as a problem.


Mr. Porter mentioned the National Institute of Standards and TechnologyreportIn "It is written that there is a limit to specifying a person even if using an AFR in an uncoordinated subject, that is, a subject not facing the camera, or a subject with ambiguous face". The report says that "accurate face authentication" requires "performing in a controlled environment using high-quality cameras". The reason is that there is a possibility that the face of the subject can easily be hidden for some reason, and deployment of multiple cameras for face authentication is expensive.

The accuracy of software used for face authentication has also been criticized by the American House Committee. For more information on this issue, please read the following article.

Face recognition technology used by FBI for criminal investigation has no regulation "lack accuracy" - GIGAZINE


The difficulty of using AFR,Notting Hill CarnivalMetropolitan police in charge of security ofstatementI also understand well. According to this statement, it seems that 454 arrests have been issued by carnival security, but AFR seems to have never detected it as a suspect.

Rachel Robinson, a policy director of privacy protection groups on the limitation of the effectiveness of AFR and that AFR regulations are not well developed, said, "We are increasingly looking at monitoring technology, The gap with the law enforcement measures by the police is deepening and we have always sounded a warning about this problem. "

While clear issues and fear of AFR were pointed out in this way, plans to use AFR in the UEFA Champions League finals emerged, is whether AFR is playing an active part or not at all or whether the incident occurs in the first place Whether it does not happen is absolutely unknown. The UEFA Champions League final which attracts not only such football world but also technology and privacy field starts at 3:45 on June 4, 2017 in Japan time.