Time to Ban Facial Recognition from Public Spaces and Borders

Click to expand Image Pedestrians walk across a crossroad as a big electronic screen supported by face-recognition system shows the image of a jaywalker at the intersection in Nanjing city, east China's Jiangsu province, July 4, 2019. © 2019 Imaginechina via AP Photo We are at a fork in the road regarding states' approaches to facial recognition surveillance. On the one hand, governments in places like Israel and the United Kingdom are progressing plans to roll out widespread use of this powerf...