Is Facial Recognition a Useful Public Safety Tool or Something Sinister?
Jan 29, 2024 • 22:20
Big brother.
“Facial recognition is the perfect tool for oppression,” argued Woodrow Hartzog, then a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, and Evan Selinger, a philosopher at the Rochester Institute of Technology, back in 2018. They also called it “the most uniquely dangerous surveillance mechanism ever invented.” Unlike other biometric identifiers, such as fingerprints and DNA, your face is immediately visible wherever you roam. The upshot of the cheery slogan “your face is your passport” is that authorities don’t even have to bother with demanding “your papers, please” to identify and track you.