Facial recognition has been deployed to improve the convenience of our day-to-day lives, from identifying your friends on pictures shared on social media, unlocking your phone or door, validating identity at ATM machines, and enforcing building security. However, every coin has two sides, and it can be argued the other side is much darker than meets the eye.
What is the price we pay for a little extra convenience in our lives? Facial recognition enables a third eye from authorities or companies into our lives, allowing one) the targeting of specific individuals to their interest and two) the ability surveil our lives in disturbing detail, and we see how these two applications correspond to the two most powerful countries in the world.

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