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Your Face is a Barcode

Themes from this article: tasks (moving paper around) allows more
A digital image of a person's face, can effective use of the staff
be matched against a database of other resources.However most law enforcement
images.The potential will exist to track technologies, including standard CCTV
the movements of everyone in a security cameras are only effective with
country.Automatic face recognition is now the cooperation of the people, these
becoming practical.Face recognition systems are often useless against those
systems in public places, is a matter for with criminal intent, and this technology
serious concen.The shock value of the does not generate irrefutable evidence in
horrific events on September 11 could adverse conditions, such as those that
make many people opposed to excessive exist in many airports, which would
security much more tolerant of its increase the risk of false
implementation.Information is collected identifications. The problem is that
and transferred without Knolouge or false identification by a person does not
permission from the subjects.Abuse of involve the implied reputation of
face recognition may generate additional technological accuracy.Freedom of
crimes.The question is that of actions:Absolute freedom would require
proportion, there must be a balance the absence of any controls, legal of
between liberty and control. otherwise, this would amount to anarchy.
Points inferred indirectly: Thus despite being free to do as we
And everywhere the ceremony of innocence peace, we would, ironically, not have the
is drowned the best lack all conviction ability to act upon our pleasure, as our
while the worst are full of passionate lives would be consumed with the nauseate
intensity.Technology is intrinsically of saying alive! This is in direct
neutral, how it is used determines if it contrast with what we are able to
is a force for good or evil.The central accomplish with in the restrictions of
principle of our culture should be that society, as a result of the opportunities
which makes ours a free democratic such restriction creates.Implications:The
society.One can extrapolate from implications of expediency adopting such
historical events such as the unclear systems are numerous fighting terrorism
tests in 1947, that technologies can not notwithstanding, there are many as yet
be dis-invented or confined to one unresolved questions as to the uses of a
use.Data protection Act may apply, system designed to infringe upon the
providing at least some basic rights, (no populous without the consent or knowledge
other statutory right in English law to of these people whose faces are captured.
personal privacy).Technology can make As logs as there are successive gove
surveillance cheaper through automation a ments, that take control and change
some processes.Freedom is only the policies, the uses of such tools will
perception of being autonomous.A society also be continually changing.The problems
can only be considered free where the arise when one considers the wider
goverment forces do not have absolute effects that unwanted surveillance may
power over the general populace.Democracy have, fore example democracy is in part
is in part based on the principles that based on the principle that groups can
groups can develop views in insolation develop views in insolation from
from goverment. goverment.One can extrapolate from
Summary:The main points made in an historical events such as the development
article: of Atomic weapons, to save thousands on
Security system impresses US officials, both sides by ending the second would war
a special report on the terrorism crisis without invading Japan The plans for
by Stuart Millar published in the which were stolen be the Union of Soviet
Guardian on Tuesday September 25 are Socialist Republics, which started a
summarised as follows:American sequence of events that untimely ended in
authorities are committed to deploying a the current situation where several minor
relatively new combination of software nation have the ability to start a chain
and surveillance technologies in response reaction that would literary destroy the
to the attacks of September 11th as part world.Data protection laws:The American
of an airport security review.The system people have built into there laws
under consideration, known as FaceIt, is safeguards that could reasonable be used
designed to identify known suspects, to help prevent the uncontrolled spread
through comparison of a person's face of privative systems. We in direct
against a database of facial images, it contrast have no rights built rights to
does not require the cooperation of the protect the privacy of information apart
subject, and may not even generate from those set into the data protection
irrefutable evidence in adverse legislation which maybe a futile gesture
conditions, such as those that exist in as there are get out glasses for anything
many airports, which would increase the evan remotely related to law
risk of false identifications.This enforcement.Innocent Majority:Should this
development is being driven by political severance technology be implemented
interests and could be implemented on anywhere, the unique situation will be
mass, to form an equivalent to the created where information will be
British ring of steel, supposedly for our collected and processed without the
safety and protection to help law individual's knowledge and will be used
enforcement track known subjects. But without the individual having consent.
once in place it's use will invariably be The Data protection Act may apply,
extended over time to infringe upon the providing at least some basic rights, (no
populous without our consent or other statutory right in English law to
knowledge.The question is that of personal privacy exists).Ethical
proportion there must be a balance Dilemmas:In a stable society the freedom
between liberty and control. It should be of the individual can not be absolute,
noted that the current increase in the there must be a balance between liberty
number of youths waring hoods is possibly and control. It is conceivable that there
a direct result of the introduction of would be no civilised society without a
CCTV systems.Abstract:The populace of an govement able to curtail liberty to a
informed society would generally resist reasonable degree. The question is that
even the proposal of any potentially of proportion technology can be use as a
repressive technology such as the FaceIt tool for control, however over use of
facial recognition system, with the such technologies implies oppression.Any
capacity to indiscriminately report on technology can effect a society in
the movements of any subject, especially significant ways. Fore example
when these technological developments are increasingly travail bits of data are
being driven by political collected, transferred precessed and used
interests.However such fears are without the individual's knowledge, this
currently being circumvented by the is a situation in which people can be
stronger feelings of national insecurity, completely manipulated by technology and
which are also causing fundamental it has long been the case that legal
adjustments in political reasoning of the decisions lag behind technical
United States authorities whom are by developments.Conclusions:There is an old
implication encouraging development of Buddhist proverb that states "To every
technologies previously believed to be man is given the key to the gates of
technically and socially heaven; the same key opens the gates of
unjustifiable.The United States hell". Words of wisdom and of waing as
goverment:Is committed to deploying a within computerisation lies such a
derivation of traditional surveillance key.The implication is that nearly
technology, in response to a review of everything has some kind of cost to it,
airport security in lite of the attacks new technologies are not created
of September 11th, as a measure to help instantaneously, so the consequences of
prevent simular incidents in the future. such new systems are also not
This may be a futile gesture as they are instantaneously realised, if we choose to
looking at technology to identify known ignore certain circumstances in fever of
suspects, the problem is that this is not expedient action, in the end, the full
very useful as it is the unknown implications will be realised,
terrorists that the authorities need to unfortunately too late.As implied above,
be conce the events of September 11th are
ed about.Technology:This is a relatively important, these events have almost
new combination of software and certainly changed things forever. The
surveillance technologies, the basic question is that of proportion, this is
components of the FaceIt system under what will determine whether the have won
consideration have been about for years, or not. Especially when these systems are
the system is designed to identify known idolised and become more important then
people in public, this could be the humans that they exist to serve, we
implemented to form an equivalent to the know from history that this sequence of
British ring of steel and notwithstanding events inevitably fall back upon and
a highly unlikely series of events destroy its makers in the end. Such
resulting in absolute control of this subject have as yet been sadly lacking in
type of technology, invariably it will our studies thus.Technology is
find other uses. For example, marketing intrinsically neutral, how it is used
research is frequently carried out via determines if it is a force for good or
the use of surveys. It would be a trivial evil, if a technology offers savings to
matter to use such a powerful security one segment of society, some cost may be
system to generate statistical data for exacted ageist another. The Bible will
analysing consumer trends.This technology teach us that we are to count the !cost
may be able to capture and analyse an of our commitments. Is there a price tag
image of your face, identify you from a for your soul? Jesus asks the most
see of people, read your face and even profound question "What does it profit a
infer things from your body language, but man if he gains the whole world but loses
the context outside the view of the his own soul in hell forever" Jesus is
cameras and the essence of the moment asking if we have really thought about
will be lost forever.Effectiveness:The costs; spiritual and material. (Jesus
efficiency of any technology is a said, Matthew 16:26).As long as we can
function of firstly its inherent justify the cost in terms of how it
advantages over traditional methods and allows us it feel safer, then we are free
secondly whether its use would solve more because we believe the gove
problems than it would create.Automation ment is curtailing our liberty to allow
of surveillance operations may reduce a better quality of life. However, if as
part of the administration required, a society we accept invasive methods of
through effective communications and more protection then we surrender a little
centralised control, than is possible more freedom to choose how to five as we
with human surveillance. The implication see fit and not as other would dictate.
being that reduction in the time This includes the right to life without
necessary to complete inconsequential others watching our every move.




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