What facial recognition steals from us

There s a massive baitandswitch at the center of facial recognition technology. Join the Open Sourced Reporting Network: Human faces evolved to be highly distinctive; its helpful to be able to recognize individual members of ones social group and quickly identify strangers, and that hasnt changed for hundreds of thousands of years. Then in just the past five years, the meaning of the human face has quietly but seismically shifted. Thats because researchers at Facebook, Google, and other institutions have nearly perfected techniques for automated facial