CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Nachinova, Arina |
|---|---|
| Title | Facing the future: emerging militarisation of facial recognition and public international law considerations |
| Summary | Development of facial recognition technology in recent years attracted the attention of military developers and, subsequently, of states’ officials. It has the potential to improve the accuracy of the existing weapons and devices used for military purposes. However, provisions of the international humanitarian law require an assessment to be carried out to check whether the new weapons, means or methods of warfare are not prohibited under the rules of international law. When this new weapons and devices with facial recognition might actually pass the test under international humanitarian law, there are some doubts about their conformity with international human rights law. The paper aims to carry this preliminary assessment and to identify potential norms and principles applicable to the weapons and devices equipped with facial recognition. In doing so it can provide military developers and their opponents with considerations and arguments on mainly pre-deployment stage as to whether such weapons and devices can be recognized as prohibited or permitted under two branches of the international law. The assessment is carried out on the basis of the selected customary rules of international humanitarian law and correlating provisions of international human rights law regulating the use of force with due regard for specificities of facial recognition technology. The research is based on the existing legal provisions, the jurisprudence of the regional human rights institutions, as well as scholarly articles on facial recognition technology and autonomous lethal weapons. |
| Supervisor | Soave, Tommaso |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/nachinova_arina.pdf |
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