The Irish Examiner View: Big Brother is stalking you

Facial recognition technology.

It’s scary, it’s creepy; it’s disturbing — and it’s everywhere. Facial recognition, a technology with privacy-eroding implications, is spreading faster than the coronavirus. It is now being used by police forces and private security firms.

Like a lot of technological innovation, it started in the US. More than 600 law enforcement agencies across America started using the technology of one company, Clearview AI, in the past year. Airports and other public venues, like Madison Square Garden in New York, have adopted it as well.