"It raises the stakes of face recognition - it intensifies the potential negative consequences," warned Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). "When you contemplate face recognition that's everywhere, we have to think about what that’s going to mean for us. "Applying face recognition accurately to video is extremely challenging, and we know that face recognition performs poorly with people of color and especially with women and those with darker skin tones," Lynch told Forbes. "Combining these two known problems with face recognition, there is a high chance this technology would regularly misidentify people as terrorists or criminals. Just earlier this month, Verint launched what appeared to be an entirely separate facial recognition product, FaceDetect.

Source: Forbes April 16, 2018 13:07 UTC