The UN Pension Fund Adopts Facial Recognition Technology: Key questions
By Elaine Fultz*
4 Feb 2021
"Last month, the UN Pension Fund launched a new app for annual recertification of pension eligibility.[1] This app is an alternative to the current paper recertification process, allowing retirees to use electronic facial recognition technology (FRT) for biometric identification. The Fund portrays this app as a “convenience” for retirees that will “simplify their experience”.[2] However, there is little in this announcement or the materials that accompany it to reassure those who worry about risks associated with FRT, including misidentification due to built-in gender and racial biases, loss of personal privacy, misuse and theft of electronic data, and the inordinately high energy use of some FRT systems.[3] My search of the publicly available UNJSPF documents on its FRT initiative left me with four questions...."
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