Facial recognition systems that can verify a person’s identity have been around for years with security cameras and criminal databases. Now with big data analytics and artificial intelligence, facial recognition software is about to very intrusive. When you combine facial recognition technology with deep learning, you can identify a person half a mile away in a crowd of a million people anywhere. The risks to privacy and civil liberties are substantial with the technology being used to identify and track people covertly, even remotely, and on a mass scale, for example, identifying individuals
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