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The Ethics of Facial Recognition Technology

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Dr. Anne Washington recently published an article in the American University Law Review that speaks to the problems with data privacy and argues to protect individual privacy and provides policy suggestions.  

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She was also featured in a piece in the MIT Technology Review titled “The pandemic is testing the limits of face recognition”. The article speaks on the ethics of facial recognition technology used to access government benefits during the pandemic. 

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“The problem is that governments get some kind of technology and it works 95% of the time—they think it’s solved”

Anne L. Washington, PRIISM Faculty