Your face is not a bar code: arguments against automatic face recognition (2001)
Every point against facial recognition on the list is a point about how facial recognition systems materially relate to the individual or about particular technical faults of the system.<p>All of which miss the point. The point of surveillance is the same as Bentham&#x27;s original panopticon, that is to say discipline people by making them discipline themselves.<p>surveillance isn&#x27;t scary because of the literal cameras, it&#x27;s scary because it makes people aware that they&#x27;re being watched and thus it forces them to police themselves, <i>internally</i>.<p>People would be better off to recognize and argue this very fundamental point about the psychological intent of surveillance, rather than having obscure discussions about the legality of consent or whether the system is 97% or 98% accurate or whatever.