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Face recognition technologies can be life altering for visually impaired persons

Face recognition technology allows for remote, covert, non-consensual identification. In other words, like other forms of biometric technology, it can easily be used for mass and targeted surveillance. Internet giants such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft have large centralised databases containing photographs and video recordings of our faces. Using machine learning, they can easily identify us if one of their users were to upload an image or begin a live broadcast. As their market shares grow, and as users continue to upload pictures of their faces (including those in response to campaigns such as #10yearchallenge) their artificial intelligence models for