She said the technology - and fear of its potential fallout - could in theory discourage perfectly lawful behavior, be it attending a protest, conducting an affair or meeting someone with a criminal conviction. “But we need to make sure that all of these tools are the least intrusive effective methods available.” Vincent, a researcher on national security and surveillance at Human Rights Watch. “There is a tendency among governments, even when they have a legitimate goal… to view new technologies as some kind of magic,” said Sarah St. Rights groups question whether the end justifies the means. outbound flights by 2023, aims to enhance security and speed up custom controls. The agency said the programme, which it expects to cover 97 percent of all U.S. airports and several airlines, including Delta and British Airways, according to CBP. JetBlue’s facial recognition boarding process is part of a wider government pilot that began in 2017 and covers 15 U.S. “Historically speaking, things haven’t gone great for people like me when repressive government do come into power,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).Īn all-knowing, all-seeing government sounds intimidating, said Fegan, who described herself as a politically active, queer woman of color of immigrant descent.
“We are entering a potential future where everywhere someone goes, the government knows who they are, who they are with and what they are doing,” said Adam Schwartz, a senior attorney at U.S.