Privacy

It is certainly concerning that there is literally no privacy on the internet.

I really like the analogy of the tattoo on the first TedTalk, saying that everything that is done on the internet accumulates and never really goes away, even after deleting. It also was extremely interesting to compare all of the tracking that is done to a celebrity. 

It is very scary that programs such as face.com are able to identify people and their information just through a picture. It is very likely that every person has accidentally been in a stranger's photo before, and therefore as that gets distributed your face can be taken and therefore all of your information can be found. Your face is linked to every single thing you do on the internet. That is scary.

The government definitely should be shutting down this facial recognition tools, but they likely will not because it can do amazing things for criminal investigations and for other security and safety purposes. Although the average person is not doing anything wrong, no one should be traced to that extent.

When I was searching for facial recognition privacy articles, one of the things that came up in Google suggestions was facial recognition search. I decided to look more into it, and it is certainly concerning someone can just put a photo into this database to try to return hits of who this person could potentially be. Obviously this software is not perfect and does not really work for the average private citizen, but it is definitely continuing to develop.

NPR recently wrote about the disaster with Facebook having to delete over 1 billion user's facial recognitions due to privacy concerns. HOWEVER, we learned in the tattoo video that nothing is actually really deleted. In the article, it said that San Francisco is one of the first cities to ban facial recognition and that the reason behind Facebook's move against potential exploitation was 

"against growing societal concerns, especially as regulators have yet to provide clear rules." vs the positive uses that the company could have for this data. 

Certainly it will be unlikely more companies and cities will push against the sentiment of data tracking as a whole and facial recognition. The individual as always, needs to be entirely careful of what goes online and also recognize that this is reality and there is not much to be done.