[bsenftner]

I went into facial recognition specifically to demystify the technology as well as first hand learn the ethics of that industry. I was there for 7 years, and learned enough to duplicate what is SOTA and to know the ethics are none. Securing locations was the primary goal of the company and tech, but when they started ignoring obvious unethical client behavior, and it became clear that client behavior was omnipresent, and they refused to do anything about it when discussing the situation, I left he company and the industry entirely.

The issue is the common practice of police asking crime victims if their assailant looked like any celebrity. If they give any celebrity's name, they put that celebrity's face into their FR system, and start harassing anybody in their FR system that looks like the celebrity. That is omnipresent, and a very good reason to alter your appearance if you are unlucky enough to look like anyone famous.