ICCL event about facial recognition technology

Wednesday, June 05, 2024

.As part of ICCL's campaign against the introduction of facial recognition technology (FRT) they are holding a film screening and panel discussion.

Speaking at the event is Robert Williams, a Black man from Detroit who is the first person known to have been wrongfully arrested and detained based on FRT.  He was arrested in his driveway in front of his wife and young children for a crime he didn’t commit. Robert will be speaking alongside Nate Wessler, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who represents Robert in his lawsuit against the Detroit Police Department.

We’ll also look at the Irish context and other uses of FRT. We’ll hear for example from Niamh O’Mahony, Chief Operating Officer and Head of Governance at Football Supporters Europe (FSE), about FSE's opposition to FRT and its call for an immediate end to the deployment of FRT at football matches in the UEFA region.

The film being screened is Coded Bias, a documentary which explores the fallout of the discovery by Joy Buolamwini, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that FRT does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the US to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.

Doors will open at 6.15pm. The film will start at 6.30pm and be followed by the panel discussion.

Full details and tickets are here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/facing-facts-facial-recognition-tech-film-screening-and-panel-discussion-tickets-908701188717

Starts: 5 June 2024 18:30
Ends: 5 June 2024 19:30
Location: The Workmans Club in Dublin