Facial Recognition.

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Facial recognition is becoming a major issue for our security. This technology was supposed to be only government centric but has trickled down into consumer markets. In a recent blog post from Photoshelter.com, Allen Murabayashi, CEO of photoshelter, writes on the dangers of this increasing trend. He states, Facial recognition is a particularly problematic form of biometric identification because it doesn’t require us to ink our fingers or speak into a microphone. The mere act of stepping out onto the street in most big cities guarantees that we will be captured by a camera, and in the future, we will be automatically identified (if it isn’t already happening)."  Click here or the image above to see the full post. Moore speaks on the societal impacts of this technology.



What are the impacts of facial recognition technology on our society?



With this fairly new technology, privacy will always be an issue, the main problem with facial recognition is that we can be easily tracked and our whereabouts can be kept and stored in databases without consent. For example, a person can be a identified at a store and the tracker can know exactly where they'll be going in public all through facial recognition. The worst part of it all is that it is completely invisible. This technology has the potential of being very dangerous and poses a great threat to our personal security.




What are my comments? 

I feel what we are looking at here is a "double edged sword". There are some definite pros and cons to this technology. One pro, I feel the most obvious, is would the capture and constant tracking of criminals. One con I think is relevant, would be for anyone that has access to these type's of facial recognition databases can use it to invade someone else's privacy. It is definitely something that needs to be handled in a court of law. 





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