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I do think that facial recognition has it's place in society, after all the cat is already out the bag. But I believe it should be reserved ONLY for border integrity and very high-level national security incidents. For example, I do not have any issue with facial recognition being implemented at all points of entry with it's data being purged after a randomized time with a set undisclosed minimum time frame. It is entirely within a country's rights to know who is entering and leaving their country in my opinion. This would strike a middle ground in both security and privacy and it's not like countries don't already have this information.

Private & for-profit use in any capacity should be banned.

Basically, the technology isn't bad. Humans are bad. So we should close off any and all avenues of abuse from a human agent. An AI system should be in place to create, access, store and retrieve the data with no human middle-man. The request to retrieve the data should follow the same procedures as for a warrant, but should require a high-level, non-partisan court order and should only return whether the subject was recognized and those specific frame of footage. The procedure should have sufficient checks and balances so no one can arbitrarily access this data. Every. Single. Request should be audited before being processed by multiple parties.

Stopping governments that abuse this technology should be encouraged. But that is naive thinking. It has definitely already begun in China for example. All we can do is keep it out of the hands of private corporations.