Supporters of facial recognition technologies said they can be indispensable for catching criminals or finding missing people. But critics warned that they can enable mass surveillance or have unintended effects that we can’t yet fully fathom. “There are things we don’t think of as being threats,” Professor Rhue said. Facebook announced that it was using facial recognition technology in 2010. When people upload photos of their friends, Facebook can use the technology to suggest the names of people in the picture.

Source: New York Times January 19, 2019 20:32 UTC