Colombia. With the exponential growth of trends such as cloud storage, with its exorbitant capabilities to store more and more information, and Edge Computing, which allows greater data processing, the issues of video surveillance and cybersecurity are trends that will continue to grow, and allowing more public and private spaces to be monitored, but at the same time, that more people are exposed, regardless of whether or not they have authorized those recordings.
According to Alejandra García, Project Manager of DataNet Andino, a fair specialized in computer infrastructure and telecommunications, which will be held in October in Bogotá, "it is for this reason that the issue of the privacy of personal data and, what is more telling, the rights of the images of the face of people, today occupy important spaces within the framework of the new government regulations, and especially most European countries and some states in the United States."
In the case of Colombia, under the protection of Law 1581 of 2012, it is contemplated that if a person is in public places such as shopping centers, buildings, commercial establishments and parking lots, among others, he must be informed about the fact that he is in a video surveillance area, and by obligation, he must have his authorization for the treatment of said information, taking into account that these data must be observed under the principles of legality, purpose, freedom, quality, veracity, security, confidentiality, access, restricted circulation, and transparency, contained in the General Regime for the Protection of Personal Data in Colombia.
Now, with the aforementioned technological advances, new doors are opened for these regulations and in concept of Jefferson Solano, Telecommunications Engineer and consultant of the Electronic Security and Emergency Line of the Spanish company El Corte Inglés, which operates from Colombia for the Andean Region, "Colombian legislation faces great challenges to fill these gaps that arise every day especially with facial recognition solutions".
"These functionalities of facial profiling are already able to recognize the person who passes in front of a camera -equipped with sensors-, determining their sex and age, by using algorithms that can analyze the iris, body movements and even the heart rate, and that are already used in the fields of marketing, digital signage and business analytics, but that open the controversy about the use of the collected data, which could also be collected in blacklists for other purposes, "according to the expert engineer.
Applications not so advanced, but in regulatory limbo, are those of facial recognition, in real time, which are already used in the country and are taken advantage of by the authorities in the migration steps at the airports of Bogotá, Barranquilla and Cali, and are in implementation in those of Pereira and Manizales.
With this talk, the expert will make his contribution within the framework of the Academic Congress of Expo DataNet Andino, an event that will be held from October 23 to 25 at the Gran Salón de Corferias in Bogotá and that will bring together the most important manufacturers, designers, installers, integrators and end users of the IT sector.
The visit to the expo is free and the conference program has a cost.
Registration here: https://colombia.expodatanet.com/landing-pages/ednc-registro.php
