Dr. Bennett, I have to interrupt you because I only have five minutes. I can now see why it may be risky to ask a university professor to give an assessment of the situation.
While preparing for today's meeting, I learned about new facial recognition technologies that can be used by people who design billboards for shopping centers or grocery stores. Using these technologies, it is possible to determine if the person looking at the billboard is young or old, male or female and so on, so the ad can be adapted to that person. According to the articles I read, it would even be possible to link this to information and pictures that may exist in this person's Facebook account. It would be possible to identify the person and all related information: children, income, address, etc.
Don't you think this is somewhat disturbing? I do. What do you think of the possibility of using facial recognition to link social media information to direct advertising?