Britain’s privacy chief issued a warning over the risks from facial recognition technology, saying people should be free to go shopping or walk around a town “without having our biometric data collected and analyzed with every step we take”.
Elizabeth Denham, the UK Information Commissioner, said in a blog post that she’s deeply concerned about the potential for live facial recognition technology, or LFR, to be used “inappropriately, excessively or even recklessly”. She urged organisations and private companies to put people’s privacy “at the heart of any decisions to deploy” the technology in public spaces.