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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Protection of Children in the Use of Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I apologise if I have to leave when the witnesses are responding. I am a member of the justice committee and we are working in a similar vein, on facial recognition technology at 4 o'clock. I will look back at the Official Report but I wanted to apologise in advance. Professor O'Sullivan highlighted some of the UNICEF guidelines, one of which related to providing transparency,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I apologise in advance for pressing for concise answers but the time constraint is not helpful in one sense, although it means I have to look for yes-no answers. The first question is to the Garda Commissioner. I am looking for a simple answer. Does he oppose judicial overview of FRT?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I am asking with specific reference to facial recognition technology, which will not only be on seized devices. This is in terms of having to get judicial approval for access.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Therefore, the Commissioner does not oppose specifically referencing judicial approval in regard to this legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: It is a completely new technology so surely, with everything else, the Commissioner would prefer to have judicial approval of FRT so it stands in regard to the Bill being legal in the first place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I have read the submission. It is a simple question. Does the Commissioner oppose us drafting judicial approval for FRT into this specific legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: The Commissioner cited the biometric system as 99% accurate. Where did he obtain that figure and can he explain how that 99% is calculated?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Is the 99% based on how many times it does not match?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: No, not right-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: What does that mean? I am short of time. Let us say there are ten people and it has been tested against ten faces. Two people have come up wrong and eight people have come up as having not been matched at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: The 99% is based not on a positive number; it is actually based on how many it did not wrongly match.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: The 99% is not based on how accurate it is. It is actually based on how many times that face did not match.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: If it wrongly matched two people and did not match at all against eight people, it would claim that it has 80% accuracy because it did not match against eight people. That is not really 99% accuracy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: The Metropolitan Police and the South Wales Police say the matches from 2016 to 2023 have been more than 86% inaccurate, if we look at the inaccuracy rating.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I do not think how it is measured is being explained correctly for people to understand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: It is how the 99% accuracy is calculated that is the issue, rather than how many times they check. It is how it is calculated.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: It is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: With regard to the riots, reference has been made to 22,000 hours of footage but surely it is not being suggested that those 22,000 hours of footage would be scanned and every single face processed. Scenario No. 3 of the European Data Protection Board guidelines on FRT and law enforcement deals with the example of a riot or protest. The guidelines clearly state that a generic national legal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Is An Garda Síochána seeking to process all of those faces in over 22,000 hours of footage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Lynn Ruane: That includes the processing of-----