Facial recognition and privacy: who’s watching the watchers?

Automated facial recognition is a useful tool, but there is mounting concern about ethical and privacy implications

Futurists have long predicted the rise of facial recognition. It’s a classic feature of science fiction, and today we are living that sci-fi life. We have self-driving cars, real-time translation apps, holograms of long-dead artists, and mind-controlled prosthetics. Facial recognition is just another of these mind-blowing tools that is coming of age...

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