{"id":33969,"date":"2018-07-22T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33969"},"modified":"2018-07-22T14:01:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T19:01:25","slug":"wapo-opinion-facial-recognition-threatens-our-fundamental-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33969","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Opinion: Facial recognition threatens our fundamental rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WWaPo Opinion: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/facial-recognition-threatens-our-fundamental-rights\/2018\/07\/19\/a102703a-8b64-11e8-8b20-60521f27434e_story.html?utm_term=.a2657783d28f\">Facial recognition threatens our fundamental rights<\/a> by Clare Garvie:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When deployed as a tool to unlock your phone, facial recognition may be a convenience. When used by a company to tag you in photos, the technology may raise questions of privacy, consent and data security. But when deployed as a surveillance tool, facial recognition upends some of our most basic assumptions about how the police interact with the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we move too fast with facial recognition, we may find that people\u2019s fundamental rights are being broken,\u201d Microsoft president Brad Smith wrote in a blog post last week, calling for transparency, regulation and corporate responsibility with this technology.<\/p>\n<p>He might actually be understating the issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/facial-recognition-poses-serious-risks-congress-should-do-something-about-it\/2018\/07\/18\/c4c8973c-89c1-11e8-a345-a1bf7847b375_story.html?utm_term=.4bf039369684\">Facial recognition poses serious risks. Congress should do something about it.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWaPo Opinion: Facial recognition threatens our fundamental rights by Clare Garvie:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33971,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33969\/revisions\/33971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}