There's a growing realization that facial recognition (FR) technologies, aided and abetted by AI, are becoming more powerful, will be used more often and pose a significant threat to privacy.
In the past, tests have shown that facial recognition is often not very effective. For example, at Boston Logan Airport, volunteers posing as terrorists could only be successfully identified 60% of the time during a test, a rate that was determined to be unacceptable.
The AI component is becoming more powerful, however, and performance will be better in the future.
Given the widespread interest in using FR for a variety of purposes, a major purpose being safety, its use will increase rapidly. Along with this will be a need for new regulations to protect individual privacy.
It will not be possible to seek permission for all applications, so other means will be required, such as oversight boards, and notices to inform people that FR is in use. It will be necessary to define when permission will be required. Or when people may be allowed to wear sunglasses. Lots of issues will arise. See this article for example,
The use of AI will likely be useful in dealing with privacy, by introducing logic that deactivates FR in certain circumstances.
The privacy implications of FR is a major issue in the battle of technology vs privacy and developments merit close scrutiny and monitoring.
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