Face recognition - a new level of security, or our trust?

I'm sure many have heard that today is actively conducted the development and implementation of biometric identification in different fields, from public transport and banks to ensure the safety of your home and access at work. But what do you think about a single control system?

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After the new generation of Apple devices with the technology FaceID to unlock the phone with facial recognition, there are even more skeptics and opinions about the danger of the introduction of biometric identification systems to the masses.

Today, such technologies are in the video surveillance system, when algorithms based on neural networks are tracking in the video stream real-time availability of the individuals listed in the database of Department of police (their approximate age, and gender). Thus, according to the developers, the problems of lighting or complex angle leveled machine learning with data of hundreds of thousands of connected cameras.

Of course, some of the citizens are irritated and showered with complaints, however, the legislation has long been ready for such innovations, in order to "security, counter terrorism..." processing of biometric personal data can be carried out without our consent.

In Europe, however, went a little the other way, they are trying to create the appearance of the law "on protection of biometric data," which is prescribed membership rights "to the owner of biometrics" out of state interests, and people have the ability to sue private companies that have not received permission to use those (when the store is "labeled" for personal offers to the client and compare with "basis of kleptomania," etc.). Through the courts and we can try...

We may recall the initiative (which is working to create a national biometric framework), the use of identification with the purpose of AutoPay transport. The mechanics of the process has long been used in China, where you can put money into the balance and undergo biometric identification at the entrance. And banks plan to start identification at account opening and other important operations from next year.

After such news, it seems that we are getting closer to the Indian Aadhaar database script (originally planned as an analogue in other social States). Today Aadhaar includes a complete set of data on citizens documents, photos, fingerprints, eye retina, banking accounts, and so After passing the billion mark in registrations, human rights activists began to sound the alarm, a list of services requiring identification through Aadhaar is growing rapidly and therefore all of the voluntary nature of this program - were only fiction!

The office for the identification of citizens even denies information posted on the state order for software development that allow for facial recognition linked to a photo of Aadhaar. Moreover, development of access protocols to database for many private companies and launch a widespread payment by fingerprint. Here it is, ready billionth base control 99% of the population.

I guess many of these features seem controversial, even at the cost of losing privacy. Our ideas of privacy and the credibility of the state expect a serious test (control is becoming more and protect their rights less)...