Dangerous Facial Recognition Technology

Jakarta and Bandung 6.02pm / DC 6.02am

Some elderly-women in Indonesia [around 2 weeks ago] were angry because to pass a gate in the railway station, a station officer pushed her to use facial recognition technology [FRT], which, from her point of view, violated privacy. 

The concern about facial recognition technology (FRT) is globally, not only Indonesia.

We’re facing the end of privacy in public, because of the unchecked rise of facial recognition technology (FRT) in public spaces, shops and bars.

As FRT proliferates, your face will become an ID card, a fingerprint, a QR code and a barcode all combined - to be monitored by your local council, the Home Office, the police, even the owner of your local cornershop.

We learned that your legislative member / representative member [DPR, DPRD / local DPR] probably doesn’t even know if FRT’s being used in your local area. How can your own LegisLative not know? Same problem in other countries, other representative member.

Legislatives are asleep at the wheel, speeding us down a road that leads to a facial recognition dystopia.

The privacy of constituents must not be sacrificed to combat petty crime.

Widespread and unchecked use of facial recognition tech is creating a surveillance society where everyone is identified and tracked everywhere they go. This poses serious threats to our human rights; not only the right to privacy but our right to protest and freedom of expression, and it appears that all this is taking place within a democratic vacuum without any specific law in place to protect us.