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4 The Journal of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law (Fastcase) 121 (2021)
Facial Recognition Technology in Employment: What You Need to Know

handle is hein.journals/rail4 and id is 124 raw text is: Facial Recognition Technology in Employment: What You Need to Know Alison Dixon, Oran Kiazim, Stephanie Creed, and Olivia Bowden* In this article, the authors explain how facial recognition technology works, where it is being used in the employment sphere, and some of the risks and pitfalls when implementing a facial recognition program at work. As in other areas of life, facial recognition technology (or FRT for short) has gained traction in the employment sphere over recent years, as employers explore new ways of working and managing employees. Further to this general trend, the COVID-19 pandemic, with the resulting enforced movement to home working for many employers and employees, has prompted employers to consider new ways of monitoring and managing staff, including FRT. In this article, we look at how FRT works, where we are seeing its use in the employment sphere, and some of the risks and pitfalls when implementing FRT at work, with a particular focus on UK law considerations. FRT-How It Works Facial recognition is the process of identifying or verifying the identity of a person using their face. FRT captures, analyzes, and compares patterns based on the person's facial details. In simple terms, it works using the application of algorithms as follows: ® Step 1: Detecting and locating a human face or faces in images and videos. ® Step 2: Transformation of analogue information (a face) into a set of digital data based on the person's facial fea- tures, which can then be applied. ® Step 3: Verifying whether two images match, based on the digital information collected. Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law / March-April 2021, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 121-130. © 2021 Full Court Press. All rights reserved. ISSN 2575-5633 (print) /ISSN 2575-5617 (online)