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by Celia Guimaraes 22 January 2020 The deputy of the Democratic Party Filippo Sensi announces on Twitter that he has presented a parliamentary question addressed to the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Interior, which has as its object the use of facial recognition technologies.

Sensi refers to an article published on January 18 in the New York Times by Kashmir Hill that claims that the FBI, Florida police and law enforcement agencies are using a Clearview AI facial recognition app. The company in question would have a database of over three billion images, obtained from Facebook, YouTube and websites.

The face recognition system, the parliamentarian notes, has been used by law enforcement agencies in Italy too, at least since 2018. As an example, it cites the automatic image recognition system (Sari), which is able to identify an unknown subject by comparing the face with those present in a database of millions of profiles.

In the parliamentary question, Sensi recalls that the issue of facial recognition raises many questions about the confidentiality and protection of sensitive data and mentions the press releases on the EU Commission's 'White paper', which would aim at the moratorium on facial recognition for five years.

As announced here is the question to Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior on facial recognition technologies pic.twitter.com/6mlsEFde4a

- nomfup (@nomfup) January 22, 2020


Filippo Sensi has been a deputy for the Pd since 2018. Journalist and blogger expert in political communication, he is the founder of the blog Nomfup. From 2014 to 2018 he was the spokesperson and press office of Matteo Renzi when he was prime minister.