Do Our Faces Deserve the Same Protection as Our Phones?

In June 2002, Steven Spielberg premiered a new movie he had directed, Minority Report, based on a famous 1956 short story by the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Set in 2054 in a crime -free Washington, DC, the film stars Tom Cruise, who plays the head of Precrime--an elite police unit that arrests killers before they commit their crimes. The team has the authority to make its arrests based on the visions of three clairvoyant individuals who can see into the future. But soon Cruise is evading his own unit--in a city where everyone and everything is tracked--when the psychics predict he will commit a murder of his own. More than 15 years later, this approach to law enforcement happily seems far -fetched.