Almost no one who uses smartphones and mobile devices today does not use “face recognition” technology, which is voluntary and personal use, but can your photo be taken from your online account and kept in a database without your permission?
For example, the technology allowed the user – for example a police officer looking for the suspect in a case – to upload a photo of his face and find matches in a database collected from the Internet and social media, while the privacy protection organization "Electronic Frontier Foundation" in Britain By arranging campaigns whose demands are based on rejecting the use of facial recognition technology by governments with or without the consent of people, and not dealing with private companies that use it.
And according to «BBC News», the organization’s chief human rights advocate, Schwartz, said: “When the police treat the entire community as suspects by pointing (for example) mobile cameras and facial recognition devices at everyone who walks in order to find suspects, they They treat everyone like criminals and this is devastating to public trust and safety.”
"This technology is very dangerous, and what law enforcement agencies around the world need to do is work hard to repair their relationships with the communities they serve, and build trust."
While acknowledging the usefulness of using “facial recognition” in helping society and solving its crimes, Schwartz says, “The price is very high when it comes to confronting surveillance,” stressing its threat to freedom of expression and protest, violation of privacy, and inaccuracy in disclosing individuals of different ethnic backgrounds.
British South Wales Police also announced that it is the first British force to develop and use facial recognition technology in real time to identify wanted persons through a new application on officers' mobile phones.
Okaz (Agencies)
