Regulating Facial Recognition Technologies: Is Your Face Too Personal?

Biometric technology, especially facial recognition, has taken off in recent years. From airport security to simply unlocking a smartphone, facial recognition is now a fixture in everyone's lives. Biometric tools are also becoming more and more popular with commercial brands and have proven to be an intriguing marketing tactic (a well-known pizza chain offering food recommendations based on how an AI reads human moods is both fascinating and troubling).

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Given, for instance, the amount and sensitivity of the personal data that biometric technologies process, and the impact this processing has on data subjects, it comes as no surprise that legislators are taking a closer look at this topic. Already back in June 2021, the Council of Europe issued its Guidelines on facial recognition divided