Title: Facial Recognition
Published: The Argonaut, Los Angeles
Date: Oct. 10, 2019
About this cartoon: Facial recognition technology has begun to make its way into society, bringing with it the risk of another great erosion of privacy. Crowds can be scanned -- something totalitarian states would love to have control over -- and American police departments want the technology to scan for criminals; lawmakers are nervous about allowing this for fear of a huge negative impact on personal privacy along with the high error-rate of the scanning capabilities.