Facial recognition isn't just bad because it invades privacy: it's because privacy invasions fuel discrimination

Tue, 28 Jan 2020 03:43:01 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
https://boingboing.net/2020/01/20/shadowy-data-brokers.html

"Bruce Schneier writes in the New York Times that banning facial
recognition (as cities like San Diego, San Francisco, Oakland, Brookline
and Somerville have done) is not enough: there are plenty of other ways
to automatically recognize people (gait detection, high-resolution
photos of hands that reveal fingerprints, voiceprints, etc), and these
will all be used for the same purpose that makes facial recognition bad
for our world: to sort us into different categories and treat us
different based on those categories."

Via Paul Ferguson.

Cheers,
        *** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net                   Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/             Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/                Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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