Great article thank you.

This issue can be a wedge topic where some people steadfastly believe no facial recognition and no AI can be used to track us. Obviously this position is fading from viability every day, as the tide of technology and data advances to enable better more powerful recognition and tracking.

We can imagine many excellent uses of this evolving technology. Street cameras catching perpetrators of violent crime, theft and vandalism. Identifying and catching child sex traffickers and sex slave traffickers. AI that helps identify possible victims of spousal or child abuse. Same with elder abuse. Advanced AI that can identify a school shooter in his planning stages, and help law enforcement catch him red handed before hi fires a single bullet.

We can also imagine awful, terrible scenarios then this power is abused. Rogue law enforcement officer manipulates data to fabricate evidence against an innocent suspect. Rogue government agency providing data to organized crime networks, or even just low level credit card and ID fraudsters. Wealthy and nefarious individual hiring a fixer to fabricate or falsify parts of your profile to make you look like a terrible person.

In balance, I come down in favor of technology to be used by government and law enforcement for the purpose of keeping us safe and preventing violent crime, theft and vandalism. However, a strong watchdog and protection mechanisms must be built and adopted to guard the guard.