Did you know that facial recognition technology is being used by companies such as Tesco, Google and Facebook?
In the case of Facebooks ‘DeepFace’ this technology provides data on photograph comparisons, or Google headsets with built in cameras and apps such as NameTag that can check the person we are talking to on-line!
Even when we’re quietly minding our own business – pushing our trollies around the supermarket we’re not completely alone – with Tesco developing its own facial recognition technology.
This week the Metropolitan Police announced that body cameras will be worn by London Police Officers to capture evidence at crime scenes – also not forgetting the number of CCTV cameras already in public places, bars, clubs and even some of our offices!
With all of this ‘big brother stuff’ around us – have you seen evidence of this also moving into the workplace?
Do you think that this could affect the way that we deal with workplace issues in the future? For example employee relations issues – will we see videos or CCTV footage replacing witness statements in disciplinary or grievance cases? Or perhaps you are already experiencing this in your workplace?
We’d be interested to hear your views and thoughts.
