Children’s Hospital buys potentially illegal face-recognition technology
The software, purchased from a Chinese company, was acquired at huge cost and may be impossible to use under GDPR law
Facial recognition technology, which may prove illegal to use under GDPR, has been purchased for the planned New Children‘s Hospital.
The CCTV, purchased from a controversial Chinese surveillance technology company, Hikvision, is estimated to have cost five to ten times what a conventional Hikvision camera would cost.
Despite the increased price, the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB), in response to privacy concerns for staff and patients, stated “it had not yet been decided” if ...
