Your face is not a bar code: arguments against automatic face recognition (2001)
Had my creepiest-ever encounter with face recognition recently.I was traveling home from our first international trip since The Before Times. The country we traveled from has a US Customs office in the airport. We walk up to the counter, look into the camera, and without having handed over my passport, the agent says my name.I know that I've given them my photo and that the search space for my match isn't huge (people on flights leaving in the next ~2-8 hours), but it absolutely freaked me out. I can't imagine it meaningfully makes us more secure, and it feels like the kind of thing that, to this article's point, could be trivially abused.