Face Recognition Threatens to Replace Tickets, ID at Sports Events – and Beyond | ACLU

Sports stadiums around the country have begun using face recognition to identify ticket holders.

It threatens to normalize a powerful surveillance technology that has already been used for abusive purposes.

Companies involved are already planning big expansions, raising the specter of a world where our faces become not just our ticket at sports stadiums, but a passport we’re forced to show across society.

Face-recognition access control is being rolled out at theme parks and theme parks.

Julian Zelizer : Faceprints could be used to hijack pay-by-face apps and steal goods and services.

ACLU is concerned that you can't reset your face, which means you can’t reset your relationship with any of the entities that use it, Zelizer says.

He says it's a step from using your face to ticket you to using it to ban you.

There is a big difference between face recognition being used by you, and face recognition being used on you. The danger is that uncritical mass acceptance of these technologies for some very slight convenience will usher in a world where they become inescapable. If you’re offered the option to use face recognition next time you’re seeking admittance somewhere, you should opt out — this is not a trend that will be good for you. Policymakers and companies should also say no to face recognition technology for access control. It’s just not that hard to use a ticket..