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- Discusses face recognition technology and the need for improved rights to personal identifiable images
- Draws on a variety of sources from philosophy and law and applies them from a photographer’s unique perspective
- Offers a reinterpretation of privacy and property rights
Part of the book series: Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS, volume 41)
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This book examines how face recognition technology is affecting privacy and confidentiality in an era of enhanced surveillance. Further, it offers a new approach to the complex issues of privacy and confidentiality, by drawing on Joseph K in Kafka’s disturbing novel The Trial, and on Isaiah Berlin’s notion of liberty and freedom. Taking into consideration rights and wrongs, protection from harm associated with compulsory visibility, and the need for effective data protection law, the author promotes ethical practices by reinterpreting privacy as a property right. To protect this right, the author advocates the licensing of personal identifiable images where appropriate.
The book reviews American, UK and European case law concerning privacy and confidentiality, the effect each case has had on the developing jurisprudence, and the ethical issues involved. As such, it offers a valuable resource for students of ethico-legal fields, professionals specialising in image rights law, policy-makers, and liberty advocates and activists.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ian Berle is the specialist assessor for the ‘Legal & Ethical’ module of Staffordshire University’s medical illustration certificate & diploma course. A former Head of Medical Illustration at Barts NHS Health Trust (1982-2008), he holds post-graduate degrees in bioethics and privacy law, and wrote an MPhil thesis on Face Recognition Technology and its effects on privacy and confidentiality. His recent work concerns how the right to one’s own image might be adequately protected, which this work also seeks to address.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Face Recognition Technology
Book Subtitle: Compulsory Visibility and Its Impact on Privacy and the Confidentiality of Personal Identifiable Images
Authors: Ian Berle
Series Title: Law, Governance and Technology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36887-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36886-9Published: 12 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36889-0Published: 12 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-36887-6Published: 11 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2352-1902
Series E-ISSN: 2352-1910
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 202
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property, Legal Aspects of Computing, Human Rights, Culture and Technology