Evan Selinger, Rochester Institute of Technology, Department of Philosophy, and Brenda Leong are publishing The Ethics of Facial Recognition Technology in The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics (Carissa Velig, ed., Oxford, 2021). Here is the abstract.
This is a comprehensive presentation of leading ethical issues in debates about facial recognition technology. After defining basic terms (facial detection, facial characterization, facial verification, and facial identification), the following issues are discussed: standards, measures, and disproportionately distributed harms; erosions of trust; ethical harms associated with perfect facial surveillance; alienation, dehumanization, and loss of control; and the slippery slope debate.
Download the essay from SSRN at the link.
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