Thank you so much for asking this question. This is such an important question that I've been having recently with colleagues. When I beat the drum about needing to get rid of facial verification, a lot of people will then say, “Well, then, what next? What instead?” It's because these systems are often in place to guarantee worker privacy, to prevent fraud and to protect security. Workers deserve to be safe and secure and to be protected from bad actors. But there need to be alternatives in place so that facial recognition and verification is not the only way and there are ways to give workers other options. They can opt out of the verification process and opt in with perhaps a password or fingerprints.
Again, I think algorithmic impact assessments would be a really great first step to start to shed light into some of these areas where we simply don't know the types of effects and impacts these technologies are having on communities across contexts. Some information-gathering missions in the form of impact assessments, in partnership between the private and public sectors to start to assess what these impacts and effects are, would go a long way.