The “cameras for crooks” were turned off, and due to the EU, the police deleted the database of wanted people at the airport
Advanced facial recognition systems are spreading across the world. And everywhere… The Czech police have a unique system that can scan people’s faces in real-time and compare them with a database of wanted individuals or dangerous criminals. They also have a program that can automatically identify a person based on a photo. However, they are no longer allowed to use it. The cameras at Prague Airport can also identify dangerous people, criminals, or missing persons among those arriving in the country or moving around the airport. In several cases, the police have caught internationally sought criminals involved in serious crimes. But since August, this advanced equipment has not been working: due to European directives and unclear Czech laws, the police can no longer fully utilize the camera’s capabilities. They cannot compare faces and have had to erase the database of so-called “persons of interest” — people they are searching for. The cameras are now “blind,” and the police can only observe the events. The criticism from the Office for Personal Data Protection has been rejected by the police, who claim they are following other valid laws that grant them the authority to search for individuals.
Source idnes.cz/police-camera-perpetrator-prazske-letiste-biometrics