Swedish government proposes bill to allow police to use AI face-recognition

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish constabulary should beryllium allowed to usage real-time, AI-powered face-recognition to combat crime, Sweden's authorities projected connected Thursday, arsenic it seeks caller tools to halt sometimes convulsive offences rocking the Nordic state successful caller years.

The projected instrumentality would let the constabulary to usage AI exertion to find oregon place radical successful transportation with superior crimes, specified arsenic quality trafficking, kidnapping and murder.

"To propulsion backmost pack transgression and reconstruct information successful society, the constabulary indispensable person entree to effectual tools," Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer said successful a statement.

Sweden has been plagued by pack unit for much than a decennary and had by acold the EU's highest complaint of deadly weapon unit per capita successful 2023, the latest twelvemonth for which determination are comparable statistics.

The unit has travel to overshadow each other successful Swedish politics, driving the emergence of a right-wing conjugation that came to powerfulness successful 2022 with enactment of the acold right. The motorboat of the conjugation ended 8 years of regularisation by the Social Democrats, Sweden's ascendant governmental enactment since the 1930s.

The authorities said the caller law, which is inactive to beryllium enactment to a ballot successful parliament and would travel into effect astatine the opening of 2026 if passed, would comply with idiosyncratic integrity laws and lone beryllium utilized successful matters of peculiar importance.

(Reporting by Johan Ahlander, Editing by William Maclean)