Facial Recognition Surveillance

Pete Fussey is a Professor of Criminology at the University of Southampton and researches the human rights implications of advanced surveillance and other policing technologies. His other published work analyses digital sociology, algorithmic justice, and urban studies. He has authored work laid before the UN General Assembly; co-authored UN human rights standards on police technology at protests; and co-directed the ESRC Human Rights, Big Data and Technology project (2015-2023). Professor Fussey's research has featured on the front pages of The Guardian and Financial Times, and additionally covered by BBC Newsnight, PBS Newshour, The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC Radio 4 and others. Daragh Murray is a Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University London School of Law, and a Fellow of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences. He specialises in international human rights law and the law of armed conflict, with an interest in artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies. He has been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to examine the 'unintended consequences' of artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on understanding the links between surveillance and the processes central to individual's identity development and the evolution of democratic societies. He was previously a member of the UKRI funded Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project.