“There’s some things we allow businesses and companies to do that we’re pretty uncomfortable seeing government actors do,” she said. “If the government scraped all our photos and created this massive face-recognition database, we’d probably say that seems unconstitutional. But a private company does it and the government just buys from them.”
A Facial-Recognition Tour of New York
Kashmir Hill, the author of “Your Face Belongs to Us,” stops by New York businesses that harvest and use visitors’ biometric data—but can she make it into M.S.G.?
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