While contact tracing will be critical in the response to COVID-19, facial recognition technology is not, Rochester Institute of Technology Philosophy Professor Evan Selinger and Northeastern University School of Law and College of Computer and Information Science Professor Woodrow Hartzog write in an op-ed for the New York Daily News. Citizens have valid privacy interests in what they share in public settings, they write, and a “blank check to monitor” anyone, anytime, anywhere is “a blueprint for tyranny.”
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