In the wake of the November riots in Dublin, a simmering debate about whether police use of facial-recognition technologies could prevent further chaos on the streets broke out in Ireland — and across Europe.
"Facial-recognition technology will dramatically save time, speed up investigations and free up Garda [Irish police] resources for the high-visibility policing we all want to see," said Irish justice minister Helen McEntee recently.
While these benefits are being repeated tes...
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Elena is EUobserver's editor-in-chief. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE.