Mainstream adoption of facial recognition can have sinister consequences

On Dec. 14, the governments of British Columbia, Alberta, and Québec ordered facial recognition company Clearview AI to stop collecting — and to delete — images of people obtained without their consent. Discussions about the risks of facial recognition systems that rely on automated face analysis technologies tend to focus on corporations, national governments, and law enforcement. But what is of great concern are the ways in which facial recognition and analysis have become integrated into our everyday lives. Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM have stopped supplyingfacial recognition systems to police departments after studies showed algorithmic bias disproportionately misidentifying people of…

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