Web User - UK (2019-08-07)

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Want to keep a low profile online? Wayne

Williams explains how to protect your

identity by foiling facial recognition and

deleting identifiable information aboutyou

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acial recognition has madethe

headlines recently, amid

concernsover how law-

enforcement agencies in the UKand

abroad are using the technology.

Civil-rights groupLiberty called facial

recognition “a dangerously intrusive

and discriminatory technologythat

destroys ourprivacyrights”, while

academics have

deployment in public spaces as

“surveillance creep” (bit.ly/

guardian481).

Although concealing your identity is

becoming nigh-on impossible inthe

modern world, you still have some

control over how your image,name

and other personal details appear

online,as long as you knowwhat

explain how to remove photos, videos

and any mention of your namefrom

theweb –and how to stop them

appearing there in the first place.

Wealso look at how tech giants

including Facebook, Googleand

Amazon are using facial recognition

for their own ends, and –in the spirit

of fairness – highlight somepositive

REMOVEYOURFACE

FROMTHE WEB

described its steps to take. In this feature, we uses of the technology.