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The troubling rise of facial recognition technology

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Facial Recognition Is Going to Change Our Society

We are seeing lots of push back, and no doubt concerns about privacy and ethics will grow. I think that we're going to see a lot more detail, case by case dissection of when facial recognition is useful and when it is not. We need to ask everyone whether they feel comfortable about their societies changing in this way. And if we don't have that debate, this could end up in a situation that probably many societies don't really want to go in. So we need to stop and consider this. Change regulations, change legislation to make sure that this technology is working for all of us rather than just for the people who are behind the cameras.

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