We Are Crowd-Sourcing the Panopticon (opens in new tab)

But the footage’s life cycle does not end there.In recent months, civil liberties groups have warned that adding facial recognition to consumer smart glasses could turn everyday recording into something more troubling: real-time facial identification. It reflects a broader shift already underway, where images and videos captured for one purpose can later be searched, matched, and used for another.An ouroboros is an ancient Egyptian symbol, a snake or dragon eating its own tail. As I began to ...