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Facial Recognition: The Next Big Privacy Fight
We live in a world where governments are often eager to develop technology to protect its citizens. This has been happening for a long time. The English won the Battle of Agincourt thanks to developments in longbow technology, and the first warship ushered in an era of combat centuries later.
Of course, we now live in a world where wars have evolved considerably. Russia has meddled with United States presidential elections, and there is mounting evidence that Huawei has been working with Chinese intelligence. The age of the cyberwar is upon us. It seems as though the cyberwar is so evident that Putin doesn’t mind joking about future election interference.
There is no doubt that the future of war depends on the ability of countries to find and develop the right kinds of technologies, and as quickly as possible. However, citizens have the right to be concerned about facial recognition technology. The next big privacy fight will be about whether we own the rights to our faces — and it’s looking pretty bleak.
