「自分は何も悪いことしてないし」防犯カメラが多い方が若者は安心? Facebookの“顔認識廃止“から考える“監視社会”

Announcement of Meta

Facebook, a major US IT company that announced the change of company name to "Meta" last week and became a hot topic all over the world, has abolished the "face recognition" function in the SNS "Facebook" this time, face data of more than 1 billion people Revealed to be deleted. [Video] Discussing the merits and demerits of face recognition technology with EXIT

Face recognition and face recognition

Until now, Facebook has provided a service that automatically recognizes, identifies, and tags the faces of people in photos and videos. This also allowed other users to know that they were in the post. But Meta said, "All new technologies offer both benefits and concerns. We want to find the right balance," he said, making the decision from a privacy-conscious perspective.

Self-regulation by major IT

Kenji Tsukagoshi, a part-time lecturer at Gakushuin University and Takushoku University, who specializes in information society, said, "Recent Facebook has a bad reputation, such as a former employee making a complaint in September. While trying to move toward the concept called, I think that it is going to put a hold on the technology that has a problem. There is a movement at major companies to take a little distance from such technology, and Meta also I think you should think that you are riding there. "

Aochanpe

Aochanpe, the leader of the gal unit "Black Diamond", said, "In my case, I was often tagged with photos that weren't shown because of makeup, and I thought it wasn't very accurate. Face recognition on smartphones is also useless (laughs), and I think it's still suspicious as a technology. Fingerprints are better. "

Aya Shibata

In addition, freelance announcer Aya Shibata said, "In the past, there was a debate that installing a security camera itself would become a surveillance society, but now it is natural to install it. Who will the evolution of technology? I can't stop it, and I think it's difficult to stop it from becoming a surveillance society. Rather, I think I'll get used to a society where faces are recognized. "

Mr. Tsukagoshi

Mr. Tsukagoshi said, "As various people are trying to break through even in disguise, the level of fingerprint authentication is higher than face authentication at this stage in terms of authentication technology. In fact, innocent people have been misidentified and arrested in the United States. And Mr. Shibata's point is a very important issue. A long time ago, it was common knowledge that "I don't like having a surveillance camera". But now at university. When I asked the students, many people said, "If you have a surveillance camera, no stranger will appear, but rather you are free."

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