What if your emotions were tracked to spy on you?
At a Glance
13-03-2019
Recent reports of celebrity singer, Taylor Swift, deploying facial recognition technology to spot stalkers at her concerts raised many eyebrows. What started out as a tool to unlock your smartphone or tag photos for you on social media is surreptitiously becoming a means of monitoring people in their daily lives without their consent. What impact and implications are facial recognition technology applications likely to have, and what can be done to ensure the fair engagement of this technology with its users and the public at large?
At a Glance
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- biometrics
- communications
- data protection
- data-processing law
- defence
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- espionage
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- impact of information technology
- information and information processing
- information technology and data processing
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- justice
- LAW
- natural and applied sciences
- personal data
- protection of privacy
- regulation (EU)
- rights and freedoms
- SCIENCE
- surveillance
- video surveillance