Project: Svetlana Djurdjevic Lukic Foundation21Feb2018
Security Meets Privacy – Is my face really mine?
It is believed that almost everybody has a picture of his/her face stored somewhere, whether it is a country or a private company database. Usually, this type of data is collected and stored without a consent of the person to whom they belong. Do technologies for face recognition value personal security or do they pose a threat, demanding of people to sacrifice their own right to privacy? Answers to this question can be found in the work of Jasmina Bajramovic, a Master’s student at the Faculty of Security Studies. It is published in a collection of students' essays "Contemporary Challenges, Problems, and Dilemmas Regarding Human Security".
The beginnings of the development of face recognition technology are traced back to the 1960s, but the expansion in the area of face detection and recognition occurs in the 21st century. In recent 20 years, this technology has attracted the considerable attention of both academics and the lay public. The topic of this paper is face recognition technology, as one of the biometric methods, and the goals of the paper are to determine the main areas of its application and to identify its advantages and disadvantages. The main advantage of this technology is that it can be applied in various areas, such as information security, surveillance, supervision, access control, etc., while its main disadvantage lies in the fact that mistakes at work are still possible. Further, the goal of the paper is to determine how the privacy of individuals is violated by the use of this technology, and one of the suggestions towards solving this problem is to regulate this area by law.