Mornings With Mark

Facial recognition is becoming more and more common. In some cases, it's used to make existing procedures more efficient or to connect existing data points together. While that seems like the community has already consented to these use cases, people often have a visceral reaction to hearing that new technology is being applied. Regardless of your opinion on facial recognition technologies, it's undeniable that it raises a number of issues that should be discussed in the open BEFORE implementation. This is the real challenge around the technology, discussing its use in a practical and pragmatic way. There needs to be a balance between your right to privacy, the community need for various processes, and even commercial desires. None of this will be sorted without ongoing discussions... References; Catalin Cimpanu writing for Zero Day/ZDNet on the EU's desire to collect a massive database of biometric information, https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/eu-votes-to-create-gigantic-biometrics-database/ Emily B