Video | Facial recognition: A danger?

Facial technology is collecting biometric data from our faces to recognize them in different situations.

But how does this tool work?

Does it put our privacy at risk?

This video collects the opinion of experts who relate examples of cases in which it has been used negligently.

This technology has also advanced enormously.

Not only does the Apple company use it for users to unlock their mobile devices, but different companies work with facial data collected over the internet.

In fact, the European Union (EU) has already regulated the prohibition of this digital tool, except for exceptions authorized by the body itself.

How can it pose a danger?

This video specifies those factors that make this technological modality a way of massive control of the population.

Citizen security is the main argument used to develop this tool: control of terrorists in streets and border posts, as well as of different criminals or people wanted by the authorities.

But does this authorize governments to record the streets and the faces of all the people who pass through them?

Ukraine has proposed a facial recognition system as a result of its invasion by Russia, which would not be allowed in the EU.

As detailed in the video, experts warn of the risk that progress towards such a controlled society may pose to individual rights and freedoms.

This technology has already been controversial due to its racial biases, since it erred much more in people with characteristic facial features or because of their skin color.

In addition, it raises a derivative regarding our particular use, could this technology supplant current passwords?

It is increasingly used in electronic devices, just like fingerprints, which are the main security control of mobile phones.

In this video all these questions are answered and the information is expanded, updating at what point of technological development it is.