This article didn’t sit well with me as it sounds like eventually there won’t be a choice.
https://metroairportnews.com/jfk-ai...rding-capabilities-at-27-international-gates/
Facial Recognition Technology is currently in use in many ways and settings, both known and unknown.
By creating a template of someones facial image governments can compare that template to photographs of preexisting images known. These of course are found everywhere. From driver’s licenses to databases, government identification records, mugshots, social media accounts and even Facebook. Technology does in fact permeate almost every aspect of our daily lives.
As for law enforcement, this technology comes with many benefits, but also drawbacks and questions. Facial Recognition Technology has benefited law enforcement in innumerable ways, such as gathering reliable evidence, enabling very efficient investigations and also helping to accumulate data that allow law enforcement to react quickly and effectively.
While it's a great help, it also impacts peoples’ privacy in many ways, but will trigger many debates on the parameters of privacy. The debates about a proper balance between privacy and public safety will continue to be decided in the courts for many years. The government will need to develop rules and regulations that must address a citizens’ right to privacy, while still enabling law enforcement to make use of the technology as both an investigatory and crime-fighting tool.
One thing we can all be assured of is, this technology will advance and evolve in ways that cannot be anticipated or imagined.
