facial recognition
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.
Today we take look at facial systems. These can tag friends in Facebook photos or help identify suspects in the recent riots in Britain.
Kurt Roemer is security strategist for Citrix Systems in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He says technology makes it easier than ever for governments to identify .
KURT ROEMER: " can go through and identify, profile and target people, basically in any order. And it is very much a fine line effective law enforcement and privacy.” :10
Kristene Unsworth researches policy at Drexel College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She says she is concerned that governments and police are using facial software without clearly defined policies.
KRISTENE UNSWORTH: “There is so much secrecy around this information that we don’t really know how these kind of or other sorts of personal data points are being used, how long the information is being retained. All of those kinds of things. So I for me it is an issue of transparency and dialogue.”:21
like these are part of a larger debate about privacy and free speech. After the riots, British Prime Minister David Cameron raised the possibility of interfering with social . He said the question was whether it would be right to people from communicating "when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality."
China's news agency Xinhua says the British government has "recognized that a balance needs to be struck between freedom and the monitoring of social tools." Xinhua added, "We may why western leaders, on the one hand, tend to indiscriminately accuse other nations of monitoring, but on the other take for granted their steps to and control the Internet."
Europe has some of the world's policies on privacy rights. But Kurt Roemer says, like other governments, they have not clearly defined
Today we take look at facial systems. These can tag friends in Facebook photos or help identify suspects in the recent riots in Britain.
Kurt Roemer is security strategist for Citrix Systems in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He says technology makes it easier than ever for governments to identify .
KURT ROEMER: " can go through and identify, profile and target people, basically in any order. And it is very much a fine line effective law enforcement and privacy.” :10
Kristene Unsworth researches policy at Drexel College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She says she is concerned that governments and police are using facial software without clearly defined policies.
KRISTENE UNSWORTH: “There is so much secrecy around this information that we don’t really know how these kind of or other sorts of personal data points are being used, how long the information is being retained. All of those kinds of things. So I for me it is an issue of transparency and dialogue.”:21
like these are part of a larger debate about privacy and free speech. After the riots, British Prime Minister David Cameron raised the possibility of interfering with social . He said the question was whether it would be right to people from communicating "when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality."
China's news agency Xinhua says the British government has "recognized that a balance needs to be struck between freedom and the monitoring of social tools." Xinhua added, "We may why western leaders, on the one hand, tend to indiscriminately accuse other nations of monitoring, but on the other take for granted their steps to and control the Internet."
Europe has some of the world's policies on privacy rights. But Kurt Roemer says, like other governments, they have not clearly defined