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Stopping Ubiquitous Face Surveillance Before It’s Too Late

September 5, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
MIT Center for Civic Media, 20 Ames St.
Cambridge, MA 02139 United States
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Kade Crockford, Director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the ACLU Thursday, September 5th, @ 12pm, Media Lab E15-344. Light lunch, first come first serve. Face surveillance and other remote biometric monitoring technologies pose unprecedented risks to personal autonomy, privacy, and democracy. One researcher compared the tech to nuclear waste. Others have called it "the perfect tool for oppression." Never before has a technology equipped governments with the power to automatically generate and store […]

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