Study Reveals Facial Recognition Technologies Pose Privacy Threat with Ability to Predict Political Orientation from Expressionless Faces

Rewriting Prompt: Rethink your stance on facial recognition technologies as researchers warn that they pose “serious challenges to privacy” after a study found that artificial intelligence can predict political orientation based solely on expressionless faces, highlighting the urgent need for scholars, policymakers and the public to address potential risks. The findings suggest stable facial features reveal substantial amounts of personal information, implying individuals have less control over their privacy than previously thought. The authors caution against crude estimates of people’s character traits facilitating mass persuasion campaigns online and call for tighter policies regulating recording and processing of facial images to protect sensitive data such as political orientation, sexuality and religious views that should be protected by law. Read more on FOX News.