Episode 118 of Down to Business podcast
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Facial recognition data isn’t new, but the technology is evolving and being used in new ways.
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This week on Down to Business, Wendy Wong, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto where she is also a research lead at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and Canada Research Chair in Global Governance and Civil Society, discussed the ways that facial recognition technology has changed the world.
Wong is an advocate for data literacy — not digital literacy, which generally means the ability to use a smartphone or tablet — but rather being literate and aware of the many ways that our data is collected and how it’s used.
As one example, she said many people have posted pictures of their family and friends to photo sites like Flickr, never realizing they were actually feeding a facial recognition database.
