[AntiTechTechie]

I'm not sure what group started it, but there was a political activist group that started destroying CCTV and speed cameras in the UK and U.S. respectively...their main goal was to make it too costly to continually have to replace the damaged cameras...I'm not sure how it went but when I read about I thought it was a great idea...especially since voting won't do much to stop the installation of these surveillance tools...

[bsenftner]

And as a response, the cameras are now tiny, hidden, and multiple.

[AntiTechTechie]

I'm sure as the tech evolves, people will find a way to subvert it...at least one can hope

Do you ever question your line of work and what good can come from the facial recognition technology you help develop?

[bsenftner]

Of course, I question reasoning behind clients use of our technology, and to date the purposes are universally issues of public safety: Universities, public school districts, sports stadiums, shopping malls, and so on are all highly concerned with public safety and that is the main driver of the adoption of FR.

Keep in mind, FR is not rocket science. (Hell, rocket science is not "rocket science".) It is going to continue to be developed, it is going to be ubiquitous, and the ethics of those in the industry largely define the ethics of the industry itself. If people of good conscious are not in the industry, no ethical concerns will be raised when ethically debatable clients and applications arise. I am part of the good ethics contingent.