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Facial recognition at access control: the guard behind the camera counts too
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Facial recognition at access control: the guard behind the camera counts too
An organisation secures the entrances to its buildings with facial recognition and uses that biometric access control to register visitors as well. When the system returns no match, a security officer reviews the camera images and decides personally whether someone may enter. The question is whose measures have to reach that officer: those of the supplier of the model, those of the department that deploys the system, or both.
relates to
Read at 2 Aug 2026. What did not yet apply on that date is not shown here. The transparency duties of article 50 apply, and the Commission can enforce against GPAI providers.