IBM has exited facial recognition technology business. Microsoft is reluctant to sell facial recognition technology to police. Amazon put a moratorium of one year on selling ‘Recoknition’ to law enforcement agencies.

The technology is likely to be measured for mass surveillance and racial profiling. It could violate basic human rights and freedoms. It is too dangerous to be used for law enforcement purposes right now.

The governments are slowing down or stopping altogether uses of facial recognition in public sphere.

Any government which could identify every face in public everywhere all the time deals a death blow to freedom.

Government must protect public order but must subject the privacy invading technologies to judicial review. It must introduce legislation to formalise what transpires in judicial review.

If every face is recognised, it will be difficult to have political dissent.