UCLA drops controversial face recognition plan

A major California university has dropped plans to use facial recognition for the surveillance of the campus. The idea was to have the University of California Los Angeles use facial recognition as a way to gain access to buildings, to prove authenticity and deny entry to people with restricted access to the campus, matching their faces against a database. Advocacy group Fight for the Future says UCLA was the first major university exploring using facial recognition to monitor students. The group had tested facial recognition software and found that "dozens" of student-athletes and professors were incorrectly matched with photos from a mugshot database, "and the overwhelming majority of those misidentified were people of color." Why your face is the key: Do you really control how your face is being used?