We are fast approaching an era when humanity will be subjugated by a technological tyranny managed by an untouchable organization of elites, bureaucrats and paid public minders hired to monitor our behaviors, emotions and thoughts. In an environment like this, law and justice will be meaningless, as the tools of a technocracy can used to enforce the policies and whims of whoever monitors us, whether it be corporate employees, criminals, or abusive state actors.
Recent developments and roll-outs of advanced facial recognition technology are a hint of the coming ubiquitousness in using biometric, face-scanning, emotion-reading, all-seeing technology to govern every detail of daily life. Consider the following developments:
- It was recently reported that around half of Americans are already in police facial recognition databases, the vast majority having never been even accused of committing a crime or consenting to being included in the database. [Source]
- Increasingly, facial recognition is being used to scan concert and festival goers creating permanent databases of partiers. [Source]
- An experimental town in China is now using facial recognition to grant citizens entry. [Source]
- Facial recognition is now capable of reading human emotions, opening the door to a new world of possibility in pre-crime detection. [Source]
- The TSA is using emotion reading facial recognition technology to determine if a traveler is to be treated as a threat. [Source]
- Police nationwide are using the controversial Stingray system which allows them to listen to anyone’s cell phone conversations. [Source]
- California police are already using a computer system called ‘Beware’ to predict crime and preemptively stop it. [Source]
- Microsoft recently conducted a major test during the 2016 Republican and Democratic conventions, using emotion reading facial recognition technology to survey the crowd for threats. [Source]
- A Russian software developer has released an App that allows you to turn your smart phone into a facial recognition device. [Source]
- Some U.S. churches are using a consumer version of facial recognition to keep tabs on who is in attendance for Sunday service. [Source]
- Facial recognition, finger-print reading, and iris scanning is now being included in consumer technologies. [Source]
