Security Nudge. Remain Vigilant To The Use Of Facial Recognition Technology. Sponsored By CybSafe.

Facial recognition technology, or FRT, is becoming increasingly common as businesses, governments, and law enforcement authorities look for ways to use your face to verify your identity, track your movements, and control your access to government benefits. A company called Clearview AI, for example, has scraped over 30 billion photos of people from the Internet to create a tool that lets police automatically identify people in crowds or walking down the street. That’s why lobby groups such as the Electronic Frontiers Foundation have been pushing back hard against FRT, which it says is too inaccurate to be used for identifying people and is prone to racial bias, threatens privacy rights, and creates information security risks. The group argues that the government should ban the use of FRT in agencies and strictly limit its use in the private sector. Whether this slows its adoption or not remains to be seen – but in a world where your face is your identity, it’s important to remain vigilant to FRT’s use. The 60-second "Security Nudge" is brought to you by CybSafe, developers of the Human Risk Management Platform. Learn more at https://cybsafe.com