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ANALYSIS

EU facial recognition legislation

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By sam choi, hannah Lepow, christopher Lin, and Jadzia Pierce of Covington &
Burling LLP.
         acial recognition technology       on law enforcement agencies’ use of          Representatives, yvette Clarke (D-Ny)
         (FRT) is being developed and       any biometric surveillance system in         in July 2019 and introduced in the
         deployed at phenomenal speeds      connection with police-worn body-            Senate by Sen. Booker (D-NJ) in Octo-
and lawmakers worldwide are scram-          cams.3                                       ber 2019—would regulate the use of
bling to catch up. The resulting pieces          In March 2020, Washington state         FRT by landlords who receive some
of legislative and enforcement efforts      enacted a bill that prescribes several       form of federal financial assistance.12
convey that although there is consensus     requirements for agency use of FRT.4         Similarly, a House bill proposed by
that something needs to be done to reg-     Among other things, prior to deploy-         Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) would pro-
ulate the burgeoning technology, there      ing the technology, agencies will be         hibit any federal funding from being
is little consensus on the approach that    required to file a notice of intent and      used for the purchase or use of FRT.13
should be taken. In this article, we        publish an accountability report that            We are aware of one federal pro-
highlight some of the key trends that       will be subject to public review and         posal that would broadly regulate com-
have come out of the United States and      comment. Use of FRT to make deci-            mercial use of FRT, without a federal
the European Union thus far.                sions that produce legal or “similarly       funding hook. The Commercial Facial
                                            significant” effects (e.g., decisions per-   Recognition Privacy Act, introduced
rkfqba pq^qbp                               taining to financial services, housing,      just over a year ago in March 2019 by
In the United States, legislative propos-   criminal justice, or employment oppor-       Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), would pro-
als can be divided into those seeking to    tunities) will be subject to heightened      hibit commercial entities from, among
regulate government use of FRT and          requirements. In addition, certain uses      other things, collecting facial recogni-
those seeking to regulate commercial        will be substantially limited, including     tion data from end users without affir-
use of FRT.                                 the use of FRT for ongoing surveil-          mative consent.14 The bill has not pro-
    dçîÉêåãÉåí=ìëÉ=çÑ=coq: Propos-          lance, real-time or near-real-time iden-     gressed since its initial referral to
als aimed at regulating government use      tification, or persistent tracking with-     committee.
of FRT run the gamut from imposing          out a warrant (or in other limited               There are active bills seeking to reg-
complete moratoriums on such use to         circumstances).                              ulate commercial use of FRT in nearly a
creating specific requirements and               various states are considering their    dozen states, from California15 and
guidelines that agencies would be           own pieces of legislation that regulate      New Jersey16 to Idaho17 and Ala-
required to follow.                         government use of FRT in a variety of        bama.18 The majority of these follow
    In February 2020, Sens. Jeff            ways, such as Arizona,5 Massachusetts,6      the formula of the broadest federal pro-
Merkley (D-OR) and Cory Booker              New Hampshire,7and vermont.8 In              posal, prohibiting the use of FRT with-
(D-NJ) introduced the Ethical Use of        addition, multiple city governments          out some type of notice provided to
Facial Recognition Act, which would         have taken matters into their own            and/or consent obtained from the con-
prohibit any federal agency official        hands — the cities of San Francisco,9        sumer. However, certain of the bills
from using FRT without a warrant            Oakland,10 and Somerville,11 for exam-       focus on specific issues. For example,
until Congress enacts legislation imple-    ple, have ordinances in place that           the Maryland state legislature recently
menting guidelines for such use.1 As        largely ban city officials’ use of FRT for   passed a bill prohibiting the use of FRT
another example, in November 2019,          surveillance.                                during job interviews without the
Sens. Chris Coons (D-DE) and Mike                `çããÉêÅá~ä= ìëÉ= çÑ= coqW= Federal      applicant’s consent.19 Additionally, one
Lee (R-UT) introduced the Facial            and state proposals aimed at regulating      New york proposal would prohibit
Recognition Technology Warrant Act          commercial use of FRT range from             landlords from using FRT in residential
of 2019, which would prohibit using         cross-sector regulation to bills that        properties.20 While none of the federal
FRT for ongoing surveillance in a           focus on a particular contexts, such as      proposals discussed above include an
public space unless such surveillance is    housing or employment.                       express private right of action, several
in support of a law enforcement activ-           The majority of the federal propos-     state bills do.21
ity and certain other conditions are        als addressing commercial use of FRT
met.2                                       from this Congressional session are          brolmb^k rkflk
    State legislatures, meanwhile, have     limited to spheres in which the federal      In the EU, the General Data Protection
moved past legislative proposals and        government has some authority, such          Regulation (GDPR), and its law
actually enacted legislation. In October    as through funding. For example, the         enforcement counterpart, the Police
2019, California enacted A.B. 1215,         No Biometric Barriers to Housing             and Criminal Justice Directive, apply
which creates a three-year moratorium       Act—introduced in the House by               to commercial and government use of

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FRT. Facial images are deemed per-            use. For instance, the Danish DPA                White Paper on AI,29 setting out the
sonal data under the GDPR, meaning            approved in July 2019 Brøndby Foot-              EU’s vision for building an “ecosystem
that controllers of FRT systems must          ball Stadium’s use of FRT to enforce a           of trust” regarding AI use in the EU
comply with certain obligations —             ban list for security purposes.25 DPAs           through a robust legislative framework.
including transparency, processing data       are continuing to investigate other uses         Among other things, the White Paper
fairly and securely, and complying with       of FRT, such as at London King’s Cross           proposes a mandatory pre-marketing
individuals’ requests to exercise rights      development and by Clearview AI. 26              conformity assessment requirement for
they have over their personal data.               In the UK, use of FRT systems was            high-risk AI applications. The Commis-
Where facial images are used for the          challenged from a human rights law               sion recognizes “remote biometric iden-
purpose of uniquely identifying indi-         perspective at the UK High Court.27              tification systems” — such as FRT use in
viduals they constitute “special cate-        The European Convention on Human                 public spaces — as an example of a high-
gory personal data,” and are subject to       Rights provides that everyone “has the           risk AI application that could be subject
heightened obligations under the              right to respect for his private and             to this conformity assessment require-
GDPR (Art. 9). In those circumstances,        family life, his home and his correspon-         ment. In the White paper, the Commis-
the controller may need to obtain             dence.” (Art. 8.) With a few exceptions,         sion notes that FRT systems are already
explicit consent from individuals             public authorities may not interfere             heavily regulated under existing EU laws
whose faces are processed by the FRT          with the exercise of this right. The             (as described above), but that there are
system, or alternatively, identify a sub-     complainant alleged that South Wales             unique concerns raised by their deploy-
stantial public interest for the process-     Police Force’s use of FRT for policing           ment in public spaces. The Commission
ing under EU or Member State law.             and security purposes infringed this             further states that it will “launch a broad
    In the last few years, FRT systems        fundamental human right, as well as              European debate on the specific circum-
have been deployed in a range of differ-      UK data protection laws and equality             stances, if any, which might justify such
ent settings in Europe. Accordingly, a        legislation. The court found in favor of         use, and on common safeguards.”30
number of data protection authorities         South Wales Police Force’s use of FRT
(DPAs) in different Member States             based on the specific facts of the case.         `lk`irpflk
have examined FRT use within the              Nonetheless, this case prompted the              Although FRT has become a popular
construct of the GDPR.22 Notably, the         UK Information Commissioner to                   topic among lawmakers, it is unclear
European Data Protection Board,               investigate and issue an opinion on              whether varying legislative and
made up of representatives from DPAs          police use of FRT, calling on the UK             enforcement efforts may someday con-
in each Member State and formally             government to introduce a statutory              verge into a unified approach. What is
established to issue GDPR guidance,           binding code of practice on the use of           clear is that lawmakers’ activities never-
has issued guidance on FRT use.23 In          biometric technology, such as live facial        theless may influence the technology’s
some cases, DPAs have found that cer-         recognition technology.28                        continued development and use. As a
tain uses of FRT systems are in breach            Further regulation of FRT, particu-          result, it will be critical to continue to
of the GDPR. For example, on                  larly by public authorities, remains an          track key developments and be
21 August 2019, Sweden’s DPA fined            open issue in the EU. Although the               prepared to adapt, as needed.
the Skellefteå municipality for using         GDPR offers safeguards for individuals
FRT to track student attendance in a          whose facial images are processed by
public school, concluding that: (1)           FRT systems, some policymakers and                   AuthoRs
tracking attendance with FRT was              commentators think that these meas-
                                                                                                   Sam Choi, Hannah Lepow and Jadzia
overly invasive, (2) the imbalance of         ures do not go far enough to protect                 Pierce are Associates, and Christopher
power between the students (the data          fundamental human rights. This debate                Lin is a Legal Intern, at Covington &
subjects) and the school (the data con-       over the need for further FRT regula-                Burling LLP in the US.
troller) invalidated student consent,         tion has arisen at the EU level in the               Emails: jchoi@cov.com
                                                                                                   hlepow@cov.com
and (3) the school did not conduct a          context of future regulation of AI tech-
                                                                                                   jpierce@cov.com
data protection impact assessment.24 In       nologies. On 19 February 2020, the                   clin@cov.com
other cases, DPAs have permitted FRT          European Commission published a

RefeRences

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     at                                           html?bill_id=201920200AB1215&versio          5    S.B. 1383, 54th Leg., 2d Reg. Sess.
     www.congress.gov/116/bills/s3284/BILL        n=20190AB121593CHP                                (Ariz. 2020), available at
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     (Cal. 2019), available at                    state-passes-bill-limiting-government-            available at

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      sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.asp        hb1202T.pdf                                     to-interpret-swedens-first-gdpr-fine-on-
      x?ID=3850006&GUID=12FC5DF6-                  20 S. 5687, 2019–2020 Leg., Reg. Sess.             facial-recognition-in-school
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      oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.a        Reg. Sess. (W.V. 2020), available at            automated-facial-recognition.
      spx?ID=3976661&GUID=CB1D4794-                   www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Text_HTML       26   Meera Narendra, Data Protection World
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      somervillecityma.iqm2.com/Citizens/De           3/Hawaii-2020-SB3148-Amended.html;              swedish-dpa-announces-investigation-
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      Cong. (2019), available at                      legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/        technology-in-kings-cross.
      https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s26          S1203                                      27   R. (Bridges) v. Chief Constable of South
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 13   H.R. 3875, 116th Cong. (2019),                  Oberschelp de Meneses,                          (U.K.).
      available at                                    InsidePrivacy.com, French Supervisory      28   Sam Jungyun Choi, UK’s Information
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      LS-116hr3875ih.pdf                              Recognition (Nov. 18, 2019),                    of Live Facial Recognition Technology
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      S-116s847is.pdf                                 publishes-guidance-on-facial-                   iot-update-uks-information-
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      (Cal. 2020), available at                    23 See European Data Protection Board,             of-live-facial-recognition-technology-by-
      leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billText       Guidelines 3/2019 on processing of              police-forces/
      Client.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2261            personal data through video devices        29   European Commission, White Paper:
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      3625_I1.PDF                                     data-through-video_en.                          ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/commi
 17   H.B. 492, 65th Leg., 2d Reg. Sess.           24 European Data Protection Board, Facial          ssion-white-paper-artificial-intelligence-
      (Idaho 2020), available at                      Recognition in School Renders                   feb2020_en.pdf
      legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2020/l        Sweden’s First GDPR Fine (Aug. 22,         30   Id. at 22.

Joint investigation into Clearview’s use of facial
recognition
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada                 about whether the company is collect-         province and territory have also
and the Privacy Commissioners in the               ing and using personal information            agreed to work together to develop
provinces of Quebec, British Columbia              without consent. “Media reports have          guidance for organizations – includ-
and Alberta have announced that they               stated that Clearview AI is using its         ing law enforcement – on the use of
will jointly investigate Clearview AI and          technology to collect images and make         biometric technology, including facial
its use of facial recognition technology.          facial recognition available to law           recognition.”
     The investigation was initiated in            enforcement for the purposes of               • See www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/
the wake of numerous media reports                 identifying individuals,” the DPAs say.       news-and-announcements/2020/an
that have raised questions and concerns                “Privacy regulators in every              _200221/

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Graham Greenleaf and Andin Aditya Rahman of Assegaf Hamzah
                                                                                    2 -DPAs respond to Covid-19

& Partners, Indonesia, analyse the Bill’s provisions.                               NEWS

    ndonesia’s long-awaited com-          Johnny G. Plate announced the sub-        1 - Finland invests in EU cooperation
    prehensive draft Law on the Pro-      mission on 28 January 2020 and was        28 - Whim app and personal data
    tection of Personal Data (“the        summoned by the House to elabo-
Bill”) has been submitted by              rate on the Bill in a formal meeting at
                                                                                    ANALYSIS

President Joko Widodo to the Chair-       the end of February, after which he       16 - Canada: More enforcement powers?
person of the Indonesian House of         stated that he expected the Bill will     18 - Digital Identity in Africa, Middle East
Representatives. Minister of Com-                                                   22 - Facial recognition laws in US and EU
munication     and     Information,                           Continued on p.3      30 Gender equality in privacy rights

Finland invests in European
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cooperation, prepares to fine
                                                                                    1 - Indonesia’s DP Bill lacks a DPA
                                                                                    13 - Dubai to update its DP law
                                                                                    26 - Iran moves to protect personal data

Finland’s DPA’s workload has stabilised after the immediate post-

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GDPR rush. The first GDPR fines are now in the pipeline.                            9 - IKEA invests in data ethics
Laura Linkomies reports from Helsinki.                                              10 - Ethics – escaping the ivory tower
        s Finland prepares to issue its   across EU member states regarding         NEWS IN BRIEF
        first administrative fines        the size of fines.
        under the GDPR, most                  There was some delay in setting
                                                                                    12 - CCPA enforcement to start in July

likely by the beginning of May, the       up the administrative structure to        12 - EU issues White Paper on AI
Data Protection Ombudsman, Reijo          enable the issuing of fines. Anu Talus,   12 - EU Parliament committee on AI
Aarnio, says that it is of paramount                                                15 - Sweden fines Google €7 million
importance to achieve consistency                             Continued on p.7      15 - Telecoms data plan to monitor
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                                                                       We are all affected by the coronavirus pandemic, and not least in our
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   EDITOR                                                              seemed draconian feel acceptable if suitable safeguards are provided, for
   Laura Linkomies                                                     example, using mobile phone data to monitor the spread of the virus
   laura.linkomies@privacylaws.com                                     (p.15) by means of tracking our movements. It is pleasing that the
   DEPUTY EDITOR                                                       global DPA community has concluded that data protection law does
   Tom Cooper                                                          not stop data sharing for Covid-19 purposes (p.25) – but at the same
   tom.cooper@privacylaws.com                                          time we need to stay vigilant that the current exceptions do not become
                                                                       the norm in future. DPAs have issued statements and guidance on the
                                                                       coronavirus situation for organisations whose privacy compliance
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                                                                       teams are now often working remotely. Much of that is related to the
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                                                                       kind of data which can be gathered on employees, but there is also
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   Andin Aditya Rahman                                                 For everyone who has suddenly needed to take up new technologies to
   Assegaf Hamzah & Partners, Indonesia                                organise virtual meetings, Zoom has become a popular option.
   Nick Rhodes                                                         However there have been reports of Zoom’s bad track record with data
   BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, UK                                protection measures. Zoom has defended itself by saying that “No data
                                                                       regarding user activity on the Zoom platform – including video, audio,
   Colin J. Bennett
                                                                       and chat content – is ever provided to third parties for advertising
   University of Victoria, Canada

                                                                       purposes.” In the US, a class action lawsuit has been launched, and on
   Tripti Dhar

                                                                       1 April the Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data
   Reina Legal LLP, India
   Oliver Butler
   Oxford University, UK                                               made data security recommendations to Zoom users.
   Tayebeh Saheb
   Modares University, Iran                                            Before the travel restrictions kicked in, I was in Finland to interview
   Elizabeth Coombs                                                    the Ombudsman and his Deputy (p.1), and a travel app company
                                                                       Whim (p.28). Other articles in this issue include a world first analysis
   UN SRP Taskforce
                                                                       (in English) of Indonesia’s new data protection Bill (p.1), updates on
   Sam Choi, Hannah Lepow, Christopher Lin,
                                                                       Canada (p.16), Iran (p.26), Dubai (p.13), data ethics (p.10), facial
   and Jadzia Pierce
   Covington & Burling LLP, US
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