facial_recognition_privacy_law外文电子书籍.pdf

IN THE FACE OF DANGER: FACIAL RECOGNITION AND THE LIMITS OF PRIVACY LAW When with close friends, people seldom present the same face they show to the rest of the world. But what if even the unguarded — and perhaps indiscreet — moments between friends were captured in pic- tures and instantly available across the world in digital form? And what if a computer in some distant room could identify the faces in each picture to create a searchable database — a fully indexed catalog of life, captured in still frames? That technology is here. The effect of this technology, which creates an automatic, search- able pictorial documentary of one’s life, is multiplied by a dramatic change in how young people use photos stored on the Internet as a de- fining part of their everyday lives. The sales of digital cameras have exploded in recent years,1 with new camera phones alone generating an additional twenty-nine billion images in 2004.2 Billions of photos, however, would be of little concern if they were simply stored in shoe- boxes. Before the Internet, “[p]rivate individuals did not possess or have access to instruments for widely disseminating information”;3 to- day, people can share news, messages, and photos instantaneously.4 Indeed, armed with nothing more than cameras and Internet connec- tions, young Americans have become foot soldiers in a cultural revolu- tion, eagerly capturing everything from parties to study groups and leaving a digital documentary of life in their wake.5 As one of these standard-bearers proclaimed: “To me, or to a lot of people, it’s l