Recently Facebook settled a facial recognition lawsuit for $550 million with the state of Illinois. In other, completely different, news, Moscow now uses facial recognition tools, well, pretty much everywhere, to keep the streets safe. The UK, too, one of the leaders in both data privacy (and data scandals) is set to use facial recognition in public places. This is to find individuals who are wanted for ‘serious and violent crimes.’The question becomes ‘when is it OK for Governments to process facial recognition data and not OK for companies to do the same thing’? Facial recognition is a big issue in the privacy wars partly because our face is one of the things that is truly ours.
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