Some other resources for learning about the social impacts and ethical questions of facial recognition:

TheVerge.com covers facial recognition quite a bit. Here’s some recent stories.

One of those stories talks about a tool for airports called Biometric Exit that 15 airports have already put into use. The Department of Homeland Security wants it to be in most US airports within the next four years.

If you don’t like that, maybe you can change your face. In just one more example of resilient creativity in the digital age, folks have been working on how to defeat FR with (pretty rad) hairstyles and makeup.

An overview of the ethics of FR by the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy.

That post mentions the Federal Trade Commission’s (somewhat outdated) best practices for FR, which are suggestions, not regulations.

Is there such a thing as ethical facial recognition? Kairos is one company trying to prove that there is. See their About page and a recent blog post on what would constitute ethical facial recognition, keeping in mind that this is marketing material for a specific company.

There are surely many others–if you have a suggested reading, let me know and I’ll add it.