#Surveillance #Privacy #Biometrics #FacialRecognition #Clearview: "Even though facial recognition technology can be used for good purposes such as criminal investigations, the dangers it poses to privacy rights could outweigh its benefits, said Hill. Both the right to privacy and users’ right to control their personal information shared on social media platforms should be protected, she added. New laws to protect those rights should be modeled after regulations that made wiretapping, or the recording of communications between parties without their consent, illegal.
Recent privacy laws in Europe restrict how personal data is collected and handled by social media platforms. And in 2008, Illinois passed the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), an initiative led by the ACLU of Illinois, which guarantees that individuals are in control of their own biometric data (i.e., fingerprints, iris scans, DNA) and prohibits private companies from collecting it unless they inform users and obtain their written consent. Technology is not going to slow down, so the law needs to catch up and regulate its uses, said Hill.
“I don’t believe that just because a technology exists and is capable of doing this, we just have to accept it,” said Hill. “Part of why I wrote this book was because I am worried that this is just getting out there and we’re not doing enough to choose the world that we want to live in. We’re letting the technology dictate it.”" https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/10/how-facial-recognition-app-poses-threat-to-privacy-civil-liberties/
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