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August 11, 2019 06:34 pm
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Facial Recognition Deployed on Children at Hundreds of US Summer Camps
The Washington Post describes a parent whose phone "rings 10 times a day with notifications from the summer camp's facial-recognition service, which alerts him whenever one of his girls is photographed enjoying their newfound independence." Cory Doctorow reports:You can also call your kid if you think they look unhappy or if you are unsatisfied with them in any way and nag them. So kids mob photographers with big, fake smiles and beg to be photographed so their parents won't harass them. The companies have "privacy policies" that grossly overreach, giving them perpetual licenses to distribute all the photos they take forever, for any purpose. They claim to have super-secure data-centers, but won't describe what makes them so sure their data centers are more secure than, say, the NSA's, Equifax, or any of the other "super secure" data centers that have been breached and dumped in recent memory. And while parents enjoy all this looking at their kids while they're away in theory, they also report a kind of free-floating anxiety because they know just enough about their kids' lives at camp to worry, but not enough to assuage their worries. One overseer of two camps tells the Post that more concerned parents call her in two hours than used to call in an entire month. One company adds that their service is now being used by over 160,000 parents -- and for children as young as six. At least one camp takes over 1,000 photos each day -- scanning each one with facial recognition technology -- and the Post reports that facial-recognition technology has now already been deployed at "hundreds" of summer camps all across the United States.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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