CBS News: Facial recognition software is scanning you where you least expect it
CBS News: “Anyone who’s ever been tagged in a photo on Facebook is familiar with facial recognition technology. That same technology, though, has gone well beyond identifying friends on social media and is now being used to track us as we shop, travel and even go to church.”
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“‘Anywhere that has a camera could end up employing face recognition technology,’ said Chris Calabrese, vice president for policy at the Center for Democracy and Technology, an advocacy group aimed at protecting individual privacy and liberty especially online.
And that could mean big business for companies that sell the capability. One such company, FaceFirst, says on its website that it “can effectively enhance your business security, public safety, law enforcement and customer recognition” with a system capable of processing more than 1 million facial matches per second per server.”
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“‘Face recognition allows secret tracking so any time you’re in public – whether you are attending a protest rally or visiting your doctor or entering a church or a bar – it could allow you to be identified and your movements tracked,’ Calabrese said.
‘We have fundamentally enjoyed an expectation of privacy even in public,’ he continued. ‘We don’t expect a database created when we do something sensitive, like when we go to the doctor.'”