Biometric facial recognition technology continues to be refined and made available by the likes of Affectiva, Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, NEC and OpenCV. Amazon Web Services, for example, in 2016 began to offer biometric capabilities via Amazon Rekognition. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions,” says Alan Woodward, a computer science professor at the University of Surrey. “This needs to be considered and regulated very heavily otherwise we really will end up living in 1984 without knowing it,” he says.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/blogs/facial-recognition-big-trouble-big-data-biometrics-p-2639