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Taylor Swift Allegedly Uses Facial Recognition Technology on Her Fans

If you watch โ€˜Black Mirrorโ€™, then you know how scary technology can be.

Well, recent reports by Rolling Stone that Taylor Swift has secretly been using facial recognition technology on her fans is sounding a little like โ€˜Black Mirrorโ€™ to me.

Taylor Swift

While it seems like Taylor has only been using the tech to root out stalkers, it doesnโ€™t change the fact that itโ€™s kind of creepy. Who knows what else this tech can do?

In 2016, Georgetown University conducted a study that showed that almost 117 million peopleโ€™s identities were already in facial recognition databases and there isnโ€™t a lot of legal instruction on how that data can be used. Plus, since the technology hasnโ€™t been perfected, innocent people could be targeted as a result. Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst of ACLU, also points out the issues of how the data is collected, managed and stored, and the potential of it being breached or shared.

Mary Haskett, Blink Identityโ€™s Co-Founder, however, believes that facial recognition technology can improve peopleโ€™s lives. For instance, it could offer faster entry to events by simply capturing a personโ€™s image as they walk by. The problem with Taylorโ€™s situation is that she kept it a secret and that it has been used with peopleโ€™s knowledge.

Do you think this kind of technology can have good implications?