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Book Review 34 (Stephen Antiporda)

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Facial recognition at the U.S. border: convenient or scary?

Holly Richmond

January 29, 2016

https://www.digitalethics.org/essays/facial-recognition-us-border-convenient-or-scary

 

First Impression: Facial recognition could save a lot of time especially in immigration offices. Computers could simply scan peoples faces and determine if the person has previous records and run a background check on the person before it could be clears.

 

Quote: "In many ways, biometrics represent a wrong direction in solving identity theft."

 

Reflection

People could look at facial recognition in two ways, first is it could be a breakthrough technology that would ease their pain by not having to go to long lines at immigration offices and be asked a lot of questions by the immigration officer. But in exchange they will give their facial data to the government. and the other way is facial recognition will not not just be used by the government to run background checks, but to also use it in other forms and their data that was shared could be breach and be a cause of identity theft. Because give those kind of data. that data will forever stay with them and will not be deleted. now having your data with the government could impose risks of identity theft or even the abuse of your data by the government. Some people are more worried on how the government will use their data than crackers trying to steal their identity. We all know that the technology of biometrics will further be enhanced and we cannot do anything but just comply to what the trend on how the government secure their data.

 

5 Things I've Learned

1. Biometrics and Facial recognition could save a lot of time in immigration.

2. Data collected by the government could be used in other ways not just on border checks.

3. People will choose convenience over data privacy.

4. Our data that's been collected by the government is at risk for theft.

5. Non-U.S citizens that wants to enter America doesn't have a choice but to give biometrics data.

 

5 Integrative Questions

1. How can biometrics and facial recognition save a lot of time?

2. How is our data going to be used in other ways instead of just border checks?

3. Why do people give up data privacy over convenience?

4. What are the risks of our data being collected?

5. Why is it required for Non-U.S citizens to give up biometrics data?

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