Aug 2, 2018

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Facial Recognition Is the Perfect Tool for Oppression

With such a grave threat to privacy and civil liberties, measured regulation should be abandoned in favor of an outright ban

Photo by Sheila Scarborough via flickr/CC BY 2.0

Co-authored with Evan Selinger

The Trojans would have loved facial recognition technology.

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Facial Recognition Is the Perfect Tool for Oppression

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