Dr Asress Gikay
Senior Lecturer in AI, Disruptive Innovation and Law

Membership and affiliation

Center for AI: Social and Digital Innovation, Brunel University London.

Media interests

Asress Gikay's work has been widely cited by academics and media platforms including BBC News, the Telegraph, the Weekly UK and many others. He has also been invited to debate the regulation of facial recognition technology in the UK on BBC News. He contributes to several media platforms including the Guardian, the Conversation UK and Policing Insight  on various current topics involving AI, facial recognition, and data protection. His recent publications relevant to his media engagement are the following: 

• BBC Interview on the regulation of facial recogntion in policing: 

• Where EU efforts to regulate AI fall short(EU Observer, September 13, 2024), https://euobserver.com/digital/are9af2ae9.

• Facial recognition helps fight serious crimes but, for UK minor offences it should be off limits (The Guardian, December 24, 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/24/facial-recognition-uk-drivers-licence-police-lineup . 

• UK police’s use of facial recognition tech: Why opponents struggle in their fight to stop it(Policing Insight, December 15, 2023), https://policinginsight.com/feature/opinion/uk-polices-use-of-facial-recognition-tech-why-opponents-struggle-in-their-fight-to-stop-it/.
• Do not ban but regulate police use of live facial recognition: Here is why and how(Policing Insight, 29 August 2023), https://policinginsight.com/feature/opinion/do-not-ban-but-regulate-police-use-of-live-facial-recognition-here-is-why-and-how/.
• Using live facial recognition to tackle retail crime in the UK: What does the law say?(Policing Insight, 7 August 2023), https://policinginsight.com/feature/opinion/using-live-facial-recognition-to-tackle-retail-crime-in-the-uk-what-does-the-law-say/.
• How the UK is getting AI regulation right(The Conversation UK, June 8 2023), https://theconversation.com/how-the-uk-is-getting-ai-regulation-right-206701.
• Facial recognition: why we shouldn’t ban the police from using it altogether (The Conversation UK, November 4 2022), https://theconversation.com/facial-recognition-why-we-shouldnt-ban-the-police-from-using-it-altogether-193895.
• On Facial Recognition Technology in Schools, Power Imbalance and Consent: European Data Protection Authorities Should Re-examine their Approach (EU Law Analysis, Dec. 20, 2021), http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2021/12/on-facial-recognition-technology-in.html. 
• Cookies: I looked at 50 well-known websites and most are gathering our data illegally (The Conversation UK, Feb. 7, 2022), https://theconversation.com/cookies-i-looked-at-50-well-known-websites-and-most-are-gathering-our-data-illegally-176203.
• Consent and Cookies in EU Data Privacy Law— Two Clicks are Too Many(EU Law Analysis, Jan. 3, 2022), http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2022/01/consent-and-cookies-in-eu-data-privacy.html.