Security News > 2020 > January > Facial recognition is real-life ‘Black Mirror’ stuff, Ocasio-Cortez says
During a House hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that the spread of surveillance via ubiquitous facial recognition is like something out of the tech dystopia TV show "Black Mirror."
At one point, Ocasio-Cortez asked Meredith Whittaker - co-founder and co-director of New York University's AI Now Institute, who had noted in the hearing that facial recognition is a potential tool of authoritarian regimes - to remind the committee of some of the common ways that companies collect our facial recognition data.
Ocasio-Cortez: So if you've ever posted a photo of yourself to Facebook, then that could be used in a facial recognition database?
Because facial recognition is being used without our consent or knowledge, she suggested, we may be mistakenly accused of a crime and have no idea that the technology has been used as the basis for the accusation.
The police search had relied on facial recognition: the cops had taken poor-quality photos of the drug dealer with a smartphone camera and then sent them to a facial recognition technology expert who matched them to Lynch.