{"id":101525,"date":"2020-01-28T14:07:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T22:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/facing-up-to-facial-recognition"},"modified":"2020-01-28T14:07:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T22:07:41","slug":"facing-up-to-facial-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/facing-up-to-facial-recognition","title":{"rendered":"Facing Up to Facial Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facing-up-to-facial-recognition.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m excited to share my new opinion piece on AI facial recognition and privacy for IEEE Spectrum:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of<\/em> IEEE Spectrum <em>or the IEEE.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many people seem to regard facial-recognition software in much the same way they would a nest of spiders: They recognize, in some abstract way, that it probably has some benefits. But it still gives them the creeps.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time for us to get over this squeamishness and embrace face recognition as the life-enhancing\u2014indeed, life\u2013<em>saving<\/em>\u2014technology that it is. In many cities, closed-circuit cameras increasingly monitor streets, plazas, and parks around the clock. Meanwhile, the price of recognition software is decreasing, while its capabilities are increasing.<\/p>\n<p>I welcome these trends. I want my 9-year-old daughter tracked while she walks alone to school. I want a face scanner at Starbucks to simply withdraw the payment for my coffee from my checking account. I want to board a plane without fumbling for a boarding pass. Most of all, I want murderers or terrorists recognized as they walk on a city street and before they can cause further mayhem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m excited to share my new opinion piece on AI facial recognition and privacy for IEEE Spectrum: The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. Many people seem to regard facial-recognition software in much the same way they would a nest of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6,2414,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-robotics-ai","category-terrorism","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}