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Facial Recognition

Itay Alon

Definition

Formally, facial or face recognition is defined as “the science which involves the understanding of how the faces are recognized by biological systems and how this can be emulated by computer systems” (Martinez 2009). It is a biometric technique to uniquely identify a person by comparing and analyzing patterns based on their "facial contours"; in other words, it is a method of identifying or confirming a person's identity from their face. Other types of biometric software include voice recognition, fingerprint recognition, and retinal or iris recognition.

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Recruitment

While the use of facial recognition technology could help recruiters streamline some processes, it is hard to believe that the long-standing issues of recruiting could be solved through algorithms knowing that existing datasets could perpetuate or even worsen the current biases that a human recruiter can have.

Maksim Turkov

Policing

Law enforcement officials around the world are using Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) to identify suspects, conduct arrests, and determine guilt through system matches. It is also being used as a tool for border control purposes, to perform identity verifications, and to monitor the safety of people in public spaces. The use of FRT by police and other law enforcement officials, however, has been pointing out the problems regarding the fairness and legitimacy of this tool.

John Romeio

Education

The use of facial recognition technology has increased recently and has been implemented in different levels of our societies, including education. Several schools in different countries have been adopting this technology. However, the use of this tool can be dangerous because of the inaccurancy of this method and for normalizing surveillance, especially in an environment such as schools.

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By Gabriel Obando-Chacon & Yannick Stadtfeld • 27 Aug, 2021

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By Luísa Franco Machado & Alice Bryk Silveira • 27 Aug, 2021

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Facial Recognition: An Introduction

By Elena Beretta & Nasir Muftić • 27 Aug, 2021

Facial recognition technologies are an application of artificial intelligence and machine learning, thus they are not exempted from showing biases that in some cases have led to discriminatory results.

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By Franesca Scapolo • 24 Apr, 2021

Recently more and more organisations have taken a stand against facial recognition, stressing how this violates people's human rights. Campaigns have been launched to ask governments and local authorities to ban the use of such technology worldwide. We decided to list some we think it is worth watching out for (and that you might want to sign).

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