Diana Initiative 2020 - Elizabeth Wharton & Suchismita Pahi - Unmasking the Avengers: Shifting ...
Channel: The Diana Initiative
Date: 2021-02-08

Diana Initiative 2020 - Elizabeth Wharton & Suchismita Pahi - Unmasking the Avengers: Shifting Roles of Facial Recognition

Your voice may be your password, but what happens when it’s your face and there’s a data breach or the data is wrong? What happens to your privacy and security when all of the data is right?

No longer solely for use by protestors or comic book characters, facial recognition algorithms are racing to adjust for the increased use of facial masks in public. Caught up between protests and COVID19 are cellular data and biometric data sets, shared with and utilized by law enforcement in often unintended ways. A growing number of public/private partnerships are providing law enforcement access to large data pools. Information that in some cases is incorrect. We’ll take a deeper dive into how privately collected location sharing and facial recognition data is being increasingly leveraged by government and law enforcement.