How do you exclude children from biometric surveillance, such as facial recognition software used by police, when you need to scan their faces to identify them as children? That was one of the challenges presented during a panel at SXSW on Friday, featuring privacy activist Cory Doctorow, the FBI’s Christopher Piehota and Brian Brackeen, founder of facial recognition company Kairos. Kairos also provides facial recognition to theme parks and cruise lines such as Carnival to let people find and buy photos of themselves. He said that his facial recognition system is now so good at recognising races, a challenge in the past, that it can be used as a genealogy tool. “It’s great that you are using photos of missing and exploited children to find them, but are they also retained for law enforcement purposes?

Source: The Guardian March 11, 2017 12:00 UTC