Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door
It is not the technology that is dangerous but the scale and manner of its deployment. Patented, opaque, closed source, championed by mega-corporations closely allied with powerful governments, entirely beyond the analysis or oversight of the vast majority of citizens, completely connected realtime to various other systems, automated, eternally slurping up data for indefinite storage... these are the real concerning factors.<p>After all, a good old security guard also does &#x27;face recognition&#x27; of everyone passing by, but with a human there are obvious limits and a person to confront, charge or circumvent. With ubiquitous, tiny robots all over the place, society will get sharply stratified into the &#x27;watched&#x27; and the &#x27;watchers&#x27; and the latter will get access to nearly limitless data and power. That&#x27;s not good.