Facial recognition: who is the actual owner of our faces?
Who does your face belong to? Of course, a silly question… right?
But what about the data generated from your face? And what does it mean for your face to become data?
There is already a lot of data on millions of faces. We have offered our faces on social networks and in photos stored in the cloud.
But we have not yet determined who owns the data associated with the contours of our faces.
In the era of great technologies, we have to reflect on the expectations that we can and should have about who has access to our faces.
The recent riots in the United States Capitol have put the issue in the spotlight, since facial recognition becomes a vital tool to identify those who participated in the protest:
What is the power of facial recognition technology? Are we ready to t...