Always Known but Rarely Loved: A Christian Ethical Assessment of Facial Recognition Technology

In January 2020, Kashmir Hill of The New York Times broke a story about a little-known startup company, Clearview AI, that developed a controversial facial recognition application for policing and government surveillance. The simple application allows users, primarily law enforcement, to upload a subject’s photo to the Clearview AI database, and then receive a name or identity as well as all known public photos of that person. These photos come from a host of locations across the internet includ...