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Academic calls for laws to address intrusive potential of face recognition technologies

Posted on June 25, 2015June 26, 2025 by Dissent

From PhysOrg:

A telecommunications law academic in Australia has recommended for laws to be enacted criminalising the application of face recognition technology to visual images online that enable the identity of a person or people to be ascertained without their consent.

An article published today in the International Journal of Law and Information Technologyhas looked at the absence of laws surrounding face recognition technologies and has found that there are no laws which specifically address the issue of unauthorised application of face recognition technologies to online images. With the increasing popularity of uploading photographs on social networking sites, the paper calls for law and policy makers around the world to see this as a critical issue.

Read more on PhysOrg.

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